Theory Quotes - page 2

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. (Samuel Johnson)
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
William Stanley Jevons
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
Phyllis Schlafly
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken
The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
Brandon Boyd
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. (André Gide)
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
Anna Quindlen
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
Ulrich Beck
In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!
Curtis Stone
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
Chaim Weizmann
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. (Buckminster Fuller)
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Charles Darwin
We look upon economic theory as a sequence of conceptual models that seek to express in simplified form different aspects of an always more complicated reality.
Tjalling Koopmans
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.
Robert Aumann