Quotes of: Theories Keyword

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Eoin Colfer

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Eddie Van Halen

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

Gustave Flaubert

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Jane Smiley

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Diane Cilento

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

James Gleick

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Harry Frankfurt

I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television - all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that.

Sarah Brightman

Dignam: My theory on Feds is that they're like mushrooms, feed 'em shit and keep 'em in the dark

The Departed

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

Peter D. Mitchell

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

Ray Comfort

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

Roy H. Williams

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.

Mark McKinnon

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Eric Kandel

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary.

Alex Chiu

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Andrew Lo

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Antony Garrett Lisi

All people have at least their own one theory of an ideal life, but not that which is ideally acceptable to one and all.

Anuj Somany

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Meghan O'Rourke