Quotes About Theory

FIGURE 2.7 The origin of animals. Darwinian theory (top) predicts gradual evolutionary change in contrast to the fossil evidence (bottom), which shows the abrupt appearance of the major animal groups.

Agassiz concluded that the fossil record, particularly the record of the explosion of Cambrian animal life, posed an insuperable difficulty for Darwin's theory

The Frankfurt School was profoundly mistaken in thinking that the Enlightenment—or, better, its scientific rationality—should be interpreted as triumphant or in isolation from the theory and practice of its rivals. Enlightenment thinking has always been on the defensive. That remains the case.

To a degree, Sharpton, Mason, and Maddox succeeded in making the truth of the case irrelevant. They promulgated a "could have been" theory that had resonance for many blacks distrustful of white authority.

Karma theory is a spiritual philosophy used to explain and maintain the economic status of Asia.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

El Posmodernismo es la estrategia epistemológica de la izquierda académica, para responder a la crisis provocada por los fracasos del socialismo en la teoría y en la práctica".

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

There was never any record, either historical, textual or archeological, that supports this premise for an Aryan invasion. There also is no record of who would have been the invaders. The fact is that it is a theory that came from mere linguistic speculation which happened during the nineteenth century when very little archeological excavation had yet been done around India.

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

The Law of Attraction is a theory. Cosmic Ordering is a practice putting that theory to work.

Albert Einstein's equation, E=MC2, is considered to be a theory. Despite being one, we have been able to use it to produce the energy we need to power our cities, as well as the bombs to destroy the same.

There's nothing particularly "theoretically derived" about this neural net; it's just something that—back in 1998—was constructed as a piece of engineering, and found to work. (Of course, that's not much different from how we might describe our brains as having been produced through the process of biological evolution.)

Creationists have an argument not with science, but with argument.

Einstein wrote, "Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

Deictic framing can be successfully taught, however, and when it is, perspective-taking and theory-of-mind skills improve

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

My work indicated that if we consider smaller and smaller black holes, at some stage, the properties of black holes become indistinguishable from those of elementary particles.