Quotes About Theory

He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from the architecture to the discourse.

Reading fiction—excerpts from National Book Award finalists, winners of the Pen/O. Henry Prize for short stories, or even Amazon bestsellers—has been shown to enhance theory of mind:

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

If you cant find evidence to support something you believe in, keep searching. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

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

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

Muchos estudiosos sotienen que el mareo de un perro en alta mar se debe a que no están colocados de manera correcta los listones que equilibran las embarcaciones.

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.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: "Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy."40 The problem being, of course, that Darwin's theory itself was the conviction of man's mind, and thus by his own logic, he couldn't trust it.

effect, proponents of this theory believe we are somebody's biology experiment.

We will not have a real humanistic education…until professors, and their students, can give up the narcissistic illusion that through something called theory, or criticism, they can stand above Milton, Shakespeare, and Dante.

Comte's positivism and "stages of development" theory and the Hegel-Marx historicism are kindred and lay the foundation for modern progressivism. They all presume to know and establish the final stage of human development (even if the final stage is in a state of constant remaking), denounce organized religion and timeless truths, and worship the narcissism of their own moral nihilism

The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology.

With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.