Quotes of: Theories Keyword

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

James Hillman

You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.

Crime and Punishment

The Bible is not a tested hypothesis, it is not a theory but it is God's Breath.

Divine (Godhead) Principles: Christ Alive in You

When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's...

Peter Higgs

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

Ralph Allen

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Jesus-Shock

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

Selected Papers in Molecular Biology

What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.

Theories of Flight

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Theories and Things

Sometimes all it takes to change your life is to change your routine.

Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory

I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

Brian Greene

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

Gary L. Francione

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Nathan Myhrvold

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Paul Johnson

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Penn Jillette

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

P. J. O'Rourke

I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

P. J. O'Rourke

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Robert Barany

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Richard Ford

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Rem Koolhaas