Quotes about theory
theory practicals practicality
There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Kurt Lewin
theory professors posts
Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. Stephen Leacock
theory-of-evolution world able
I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world... Roy Spencer
theory-of-evolution atheism would-be
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. Steven Pinker
theory prove performances
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. Ralph Waldo Emerson
theory-of-evolution yield records
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in the fossil record. It is gradualism that we must reject, not Darwinism. Stephen Jay Gould
theory-of-evolution criticism classroom
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Phyllis Schlafly
theory-of-evolution creation wands
Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve. Pope Francis
theory inconvenience
He that travels in theory has no inconveniences. Samuel Johnson
theory
There is no complete theory of anything. Robert Anton Wilson
theory dangerous dangerous-things
Theories then are dangerous things. Virginia Woolf
theory wanted
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
theory-of-evolution president remember
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? George Will
theory-of-evolution dams cheese
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. Eoin Colfer
theory conditions
It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory. Grover Cleveland
theory corpses unified
The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories. Freeman Dyson
theory publishing
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. George Stigler
theory humans knows
That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human. Gene Weingarten
theory
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante. Jayne Anne Phillips
theory barmaids should
A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid. Ernest Rutherford
theory-of-evolution numbers origin-of-life
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence. Fred Hoyle
theory relation experiments
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. Imre Lakatos
theory falsification emergence
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
theory hypothesis results
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.
theory
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. Georg C. Lichtenberg
theory
Come with me and . . . think about the electromagnetic theory of light. Albert Einstein
theory incomplete
Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete Isaac Asimov
theory ahimsa knows
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God. Mahatma Gandhi
theory
Theories have nothing to do with life ... Ellen Glasgow
theory bits
I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory! Olga Kurylenko
theory concern discussion
Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion. Mason Cooley
theory ends mankind
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind. Manly Hall
theory-of-evolution creative existence
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. Michael Polanyi