Theory Quotes

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fa...

Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with ...

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...

Stories were migrants, blow-ins, border-crossers, tunnellers from France and Italy and more distant ...

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

...the essential task of feminism is not to go looking around for a ready-made theory and then try t...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant the...

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, ...

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our ...

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was m...

Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-tra...

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably ...

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an in...

There is no complete theory of anything.

That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our s...

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

What place, then, for a creator?

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...

The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are...

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tact...

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the sa...

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again....

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I woul...

Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books ...

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do m...

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itsel...

I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

It may be asked how I know that there are any Reals. If this hypothesis is the sole support of my me...

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each o...

God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big ...

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matt...

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its constru...

I am apt, however, to entertain a Suspicion, that the World is still too young to fix any general st...

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in th...

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry ...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly ever...

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a for...

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? B...

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that i...

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconsc...

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences c...

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female,...

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the quest...

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory howe...

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make...

The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfi...

Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must ...

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are ...

What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary dispos...