Quotes of: Theory Keyword

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

E. O. Wilson

It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.

A 'Final Theory' of God

Not everyone's life will be a great love story.

A Working Theory of Love

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Lee Smolin

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Michael Polanyi

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

James Stephens

[last lines] Jane Hawking: What you're writing? Stephen Hawking: Look what we made. [they look at their kids]

The Theory of Everything

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane

Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to unders...

Social Theory and Social Structure

...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The (typically unconscious) conceptual metaphors that are constitutive of a philosophical theory have th...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.

A 'Final Theory' of God

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Set Theory and Its Logic

When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Sam Trammell

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Kary Mullis

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

James Tobin

The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

Clayton Christensen

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Edward Witten

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Martin H. Fischer

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

Catharine MacKinnon