Quotes of: Scientific-theory Keyword

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

The Theory of Clouds

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

A Theory of Justice

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

Omar Sharif

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

Peaches Geldof

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Richard Dawkins

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Wilmot

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

A. S. Byatt

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.

Stephen Cole Kleene

The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.

Irving Kirsch

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

Arthur Keith

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

Paul Davies

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Roger Penrose

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

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Antoine Lavoisier