Quotes About Theory

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.

As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.