Quotes About Theory

laws of physics as we know them break down somewhere between the time of the Big Bang and time zero.

The Big Bang was not the beginning of the Universe.

Lacy had no idea of their frustration. For five months now, every lead had gone nowhere. Every Crime Stopper's tip had done nothing but waste more time. Every new theory had eventually petered out. Verno's murder was so carefully planned that there had to be a reason for it, but motive eluded them. Little was known of his unremarkable past. On the other hand, they were convinced that Dunwoody had simply picked the wrong spot.

Fifty feet away, five volunteers waited behind a curtain with high-powered rifles, though only four were loaded. The theory was that none of the five would ever know for sure that he killed a man, and this was somehow suppose to assuage his guilt later in life, in the event that he had a change of heart and became burdened. What a crock! There was a long list of volunteers, all eager to put a bullet dead center in another's man's heart.

theory that a reduction in our population means

The theory of crisis is not just a theory of fear but also a theory of hope.

And he distrusts novices who, without theory, will lack judgment, which must work "like a ship's compass," recording "the slightest variations" from courses set, "however rough the sea.

The test of a good theory lies in its ability to explain the past, for only if it does can we trust what it may tell us about the future.

This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history.

the germ theory said that minute living organisms invaded the body, multiplied, and caused disease, and that a specific germ caused a specific disease.

most scientific rival of the germ theory explained disease in terms purely of chemistry. It saw disease as a chemical process.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

Observations always involve theory.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.