Quotes of: Scientific-theory Keyword

Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not correspond with testable reality. In some cases, pseudoscience simply relies on lang...

K. Lee Lerner

But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world –...

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

Marion Cotillard

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Phyllis Schlafly

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

Stephen Hawking

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

Scott Thompson

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Tommy Lasorda

A new theory doesn't change the way things actually happen.

Marty Rubin

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Karl Popper

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.

Robert Nozick

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

Gilbert Gottfried

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Elizabeth Joan Smith

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

Simon Travaglia

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

Gerald Clarke

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Constantin Brancusi

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

George Stigler

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

Dylan McDermott

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

Ben Goldacre

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

George Santayana