Quotes About Theory

First of all, one is either a panicker or one isn't, and the occasion of being lost is no time to start fretting about a flaw in one's character. My own theory holds that it is best, if one is a panicker, to get the panic out of the system as quickly as possible

I, for one, find it difficult to picture adolescent Jesus looking up suddenly one day from a page of Job or Chronicles and exclaiming, "Wow, what an insight! That really does make sense!" Jesus was not "working out" a religious theory. He was taking possession of his own identity.

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been dealt with by many authors, and I do not want to discuss it here. I want to deal with more fundamental things.

To encapsulate the prosecution's theory concerning motive, a central element in the case, he offered a quote from William Congreve that he said applied to Lazarus: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

My father had a theory that poor people are the best drivers because they can't afford to carry car insurance and have to drive like they live, defensively.

Some people engage in meaningful pursuits, and this, I argue, makes their lives better. But people don't have to think about meaning for this to work. People who mountain-climb, for instance, might have an entirely mistaken theory of what climbing does for them, just as someone who exercises might have an entirely wrong theory of the benefits of exercise.

THIS BRAIN-AS-MUSCLE THEORY captures everyday experience in an elegant way. But it has some serious limitations. The claim about glucose is the weakest part

A "conspiracy theory" no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead it now means any explanation or even a fact that is out of step with the government's explanation and that of its media pimps.

Mathematics is only a tool and one should learn to hold the physical ideas in one's mind without reference to the mathematical form.

It seems clear that the present quantum mechanics is not in its final form. Some further changes will be needed, just about as drastic as the changes made in passing from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. Some day a new quantum mechanics, a relativistic one, will be discovered, in which we will not have these infinities occurring at all. It might very well be that the new quantum mechanics will have determinism in the way that Einstein wanted.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equation than to have them fit experiment

The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a larger part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known.

American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.

In their later years, each (Einstein and Schrödinger) hoped to find a unified field theory that would fill in the gaps of quantum physics and unite the forces of nature. By extending general relativity to include all of the natural forces, such a theory would replace matter with pure geometry - fulfilling the dream of the Pythagoreans, who believed that "all is number".

By framing the special theory of relativity as a four-dimensional theory set in spacetime, Minkowski showed how time dilation and length contraction could be constructed as rotations that transform space into time.

Who will be the next Einstein? Will his ingenious contributions ever be surpassed? Is there anyone brilliant enough to complete his dream of a unified theory of nature?

Einstein brilliantly realized that it would be possible to patch together a comprehensive theory of gravity from free falling reference frames, treating each as it were at rest

Compared with this problem, the original theory of relativity is childish. (Einstein to Sommerfeld on the gravitational problem)

Unlike the standard model and general relativity, nary a shred of evidence has turned up in support of supersymmetry, superstring theory, M-theory, or extra dimensions. Why, then, do these ideas have so much backing among theorists? Factors such as mathematical beauty, symmetry, and completeness_ strikingly similar to some of Einstein's criteria_ all come into play. Plus there aren't many other credible alternatives.

Hence, Einstein's equations beautifully connect the stuff of the universe with the shape of the universe.

One of the most popular hypotheses of cosmic origins, the inflation theory of Allan Guth and Andrei Linde, predicts that our local universe is just one of a foam of universes bubbling into existence from a dense energy field. The totality of all these universes, the greater Universe, or Multiverse, or Omniverse, would in fact be truly infinite and eternal.

El propio Kondratiev se mostró siempre exquisitamente cauto en cuanto a las implicaciones de su teoría. Jamás afirmó que sirviera para predecir acontecimientos, aunque, desde luego, predijo la Gran Depresión de la década de 1930 diez años antes de que esta se produjera.

Indeed, Robyn Dawes, after criticizing much of modern psychiatric theory, ends her book House of Cards6 with the statement, "Most important of all, there is no evidence that for the majority of people a change of internal state and feeling is necessary prior to behaving in a beneficial way. There is, in contrast, good evidence that changing our behavior will change our internal state and feelings. Just do it." (Emphasis added.)

Providence," he argues, "is not a theory about some activities of God; it is the religious symbol of the courage of confidence with respect to fate and death.