Quotes of: Theories Keyword

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Jefferson Davis

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

John Ambrose Fleming

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Thomas Kuhn

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

J. J. Abrams

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

Walter Lang

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

Robert Wyatt

Normally when I tell people I'm a gender studies major, they look at me like I'm studying Sanskrit or Latin. But now, NOW I had something to show my family, to possibly convince them that one day I would be employable. Look! People still like feminis...

Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude

Now if there is anything in this universe for which we do not have an "inkling," it is the ultimate goal of the Creator. Erroneous notions regarding this goal often stem from the misconception that all existence exists for man alone. The foible in th...

Genesis and the Big Bang Theory: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing ...

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

The placebo effect has an evil twin known as the nocebo effect. This is when the expectation of harm or pain becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, even in the absence of any known physical effect. One candidate for the nocebo effect is the discomfort s...

30-Second Psychology: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Psychology Theories, Each Explained in Half a Minute

Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from ph...

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on the sexual life when delivered by those who have shunned it. Given the way that the Church forbids women to preach, this point is usually made abou...

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is bad per sē, or that a more refined version of it cannot work effectively. Nor does it mean the world should move toward socialism...

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that a given theory is fals...

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank and open; and though he never tells any thing...

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

I remember sitting in the Beth Shalom synagogue in Cambridge on the night of Kol Nidre. Peter Lipton, a friend and an atheist philosopher, was giving a sermon on the theme of “atonement:” “If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehum...

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

More about the selection theory: Jerne meant that the Socratic idea of learning was a fitting analogy for 'the logical basis of the selective theories of antibody formation': Can the truth (the capability to synthesize an antibody) be learned? If so,...

Niels Kaj Jerne

Stephen Hawking: It is clear that we are just an advanced breed of primates on a minor planet orbiting around a very average star, in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. BUT, ever since the dawn of civilization people have crave...

The Theory of Everything

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court