Quotes of: Theory Keyword

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Virginia Woolf

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Die Kunst des Rezensierens besteht nicht zuletzt darin, selbst über langweilige Bücher fesselnd zu schreiben.

Literaturkritik. Geschichte – Theorie – Praxis

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Social Theory and Social Structure

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.

The Theory of Clouds

That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

I'll tell you once, and I'll tell you again. There's always a prime between n and 2n.

Topics in the Theory of Numbers

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

A Theory of Justice

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Richard Dawkins

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Saul Kripke

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Thomas Sowell

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

John Wilmot

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Karl Popper

We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.

Kip Thorne

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Murray Gell-Mann

Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.

Bill Nye

I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

Brian Greene

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Abraham Maslow

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Brian Schmidt

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

George Gaylord Simpson