Quotes of: Theories Keyword

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Jeanette Winterson

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

A. E. van Vogt

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

Imre Lakatos

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Jessica Alba

I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot.

Jerome Corsi

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

E'yen A. Gardner

If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

Brian Greene

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

Brian Kilmeade

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.

Bruce Lipton

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

George Lakoff

Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

Hassanal Bolkiah

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Chaim Weizmann

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

David Antin

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

David Deutsch

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

David Gross

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Dave Hickey

I definitely believe in the theory of penis envy. My penis feels envious pretty much all the time.

John Alejandro King

Maybe if they had put a little more effort into it, the labor theory of value would be better appreciated today.

John Alejandro King

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

Joel Edgerton

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

Ivan Reitman

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Joey Santiago