Quotes About Theory

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

When I first came to New York I had a theory about that -- about survivors. I thought there are people in every generation whose urge to survive is so strong they endanger everyone else. And themselves. They are attractive and vital with their secret purpose. We love and follow them. And they are the enemy.

One day, I'm going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . .

La percepción que tenemos del tiempo es errónea. El tiempo es una dimensión repleta de partículas de energía. Cada especie, cada individuo y cada átomo atraviesan esta dimensión de una manera diferente. Puede que algún día demuestre que es el tiempo el que contiene al universo, y no al revés.

I'm going to live in theory, because in theory everything goes perfectly . . .

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

Une œuvre où il y a des théories est comme un objet sur lequel on laisse la marque du prix.

A work in which there are theories is like an object upon which the price is marked.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

The significance of this special case is obvious and needs no explanation. It is natural to conjecture that once we have a sound theory for this case, the remaining problems of justice will prove more tractable in the light of it.

Arachnophobia," Stan repeated, finally raising his head. "Arachnids induce fear and panic in a large number of people. The theory is that they are so unworldly, so unlike any normal creature, that it induces an automatic 'other' response in many humans. It's been studied because of the possibility that there would be a similar response on the part of anyone encountering aliens.

When asked about it, Harvey called it his Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

Successful law is simply the publication of the practice of the majority of units of a society, and by it the inevitable variable units are either driven to conform or are eliminated. We have had many examples of law trying to be the well-spring of action; our prohibition law showed how completely fallacious that theory is.

also on June 22nd JB vetoes the Homestead Bill...This bill, which proposes to give him (the honest poor man,...) land at an almost nominal price, out of the property of the government, will go far to demoralize the people and repress this noble spirit of independence. It may introduce among us those pernicious social theories which have proved so disastrous in other countries.

Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

One can't build a skyscraper out of ideas, and one can't build models without concepts and laws.

Vas a vivir siempre joven, según la teoría de Denevi. Decime, ¿sabés quién es Marco Denevi?