Quotes about theory
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 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 performances supreme
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance Leonardo da Vinci
theory accomplished terror
My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization. Natan Sharansky
theory verses
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience. Mark Batterson
theory absolute-truth absolutes
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth Kenneth R. Miller
theory controversy core
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory
theory mess
All the theories mess you up inside. Paul Cezanne
theory importance theory-of-life
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself Oscar Wilde
theory
My theory on education is... get one. Mary Matalin
theory wisest
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. Michel de Montaigne
theory
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. Christina Ricci
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
theory-of-evolution facts cosmos
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Neil deGrasse Tyson
theory-of-evolution fiction found
In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction. Henry Rollins
theory-of-evolution littles faces
I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position. Friedrich August von Hayek
theory dangerous dangerous-things
[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have. Nassim Nicholas Taleb