Quotes of: Theory Keyword

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

James Meade

Stephen Hawking: [introducing themselves for the first time] Hello. Jane Hawking: Hello. Stephen Hawking: Science. Jane Hawking: Arts.

The Theory of Everything

Stephen Hawking: [speaking for the first time on his speech-generating device] My name is Stephen Hawking.

The Theory of Everything

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Ulrich Beck

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

Ha-Joon Chang

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

Keith Jarrett

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

Roland Allen

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study of them being the object of natural philosophy. Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays ...

The Analytical Theory of Heat

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These con...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can—if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong—to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is ...

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Eight Theories of Religion

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.

From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Leland Ryken

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

The Theory of Clouds

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments