Theories Quotes
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. (Quote by - George Santayana)
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,)
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way. (Quote by - Richard Rogers)
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. (Quote by - William Whewell)
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. (Quote by - William Whewell)
First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. (Quote by - William James)
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. (Quote by - Tony Snow)
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler )
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. (Quote by - David Deutsch)
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. (Quote by - George Ripley )
It is the theory that decides what can be observed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect. (Quote by - Marvin Harris)
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. (Quote by - Stefan Banach)
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. (Quote by - H. P. Blavatsky)
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up. (Quote by - George Benson)
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' (Quote by - Ian Mckellen)
Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories. (Quote by - Mary Wigman)
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes. (Quote by - Edward Witten)
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. (Quote by - Allen Tate)
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. (Quote by - Bela Lugosi)
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. (Quote by - Emanuel Celler)
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,)
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. (Quote by - Norman Lamm)
Theories pass. The frog remains. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. (Quote by - John Wilmot)
The conceptions I have summarized here I first put forward only tentatively, but in the course of time they have won such a hold over me that I can no longer think in any other way. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them. (Quote by - Constance Fenimore Woolson)
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts. (Quote by - Charles Sanders Peirce)
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. (Quote by - Emile M. Cioran)
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society. (Quote by - Christian Lous Lange)
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. (Quote by - Simon Travaglia)
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. (Quote by - Michael Polanyi)
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man. (Quote by - Kim Campbell)
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate. (Quote by - David Chalmers)
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. (Quote by - Stanley Fish)
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. (Quote by - Joshua Slocum)
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. (Quote by - Wilbur Wright)
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. (Quote by - Raymond Queneau)
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. (Quote by - Robert Nozick)
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. (Quote by - Carolyn Wells )
A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? (Quote by - Niels Henrik David Bohr)
And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. (Quote by - Max Born)
Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. (Quote by - Harlow Shapley)
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind. (Quote by - Louis Stokes)
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. (Quote by - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle)
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. (Quote by - Andrew Coyle Bradley)
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief. (Quote by - Stephen Cole Kleene)
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. (Quote by - M. H. Abrams)
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and of detail, is the one that must rule all observation. (Quote by - John Weiss)
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. (Quote by - Ignazio Silone)
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. (Quote by - Saul Kripke)
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. (Quote by - Asa Gray)
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. (Quote by - Robert Sternberg)
Very dangerous things, theories. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. (Quote by - Constantin Brancusi)
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. (Quote by - David Deutsch)
Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler)
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. (Quote by - Charley Lau)
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. (Quote by - Leland Stanford )
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. (Quote by - Robert Nozick)
A theory must be tempered with reality. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. (Quote by - David Deutsch)
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. (Quote by - Allen Tate)
I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary. (Quote by - Alex Chiu)
Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear. (Quote by - Leo Ornstein)
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. (Quote by - David Hilbert)
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. (Quote by - Karl Popper)
While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind. (Quote by - Daniel Goleman)
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. (Quote by - Celia Green)
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. (Quote by - Manfred Eigen)
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. (Quote by - George Eliot)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. (Quote by - Manfred Eigen)
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. (Quote by - Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. (Quote by - Imre Lakatos)
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. (Quote by - John Wilmot)
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. (Quote by - Manfred Eigen)
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. (Quote by - Friedrich August von Hayek)
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. (Quote by - Lynn Abbey)
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. (Quote by - Maurice de Vlaminck)
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. (Quote by - John B. S. Haldane)
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done. (Quote by - David Baker)
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. (Quote by - Jack Kerouac)
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. (Quote by - Georges Rouault)
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings. (Quote by - Lou Ann Walker)
