I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Stephen Hawking: No... doctors. No doctors!
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Facts count. Conspiracy theories, usually the refuge of the bitter or disempowered, range from factually challenged to wildly hallucinogenic. Conspiracy theories are not harmless entertainment, or a laudable facet of the freedom of speech. Conspiracy...
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
Jane Hawking: I have loved you.
Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and ...
A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society.
When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's theory to the very limits where quantum effects must dominate. That's telling us that you really need a theory of everyt...
I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity....
We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbil...
Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.
