Quotes About Theory

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

In his writings, Dr. Burke-Owens proposed a theory of personality that placed nature over nurture, stating there was no way to change a child's core personality. Not only was the brain hardwired, he proposed, but the soul was as well. There was no way to escape one's personal genetics, despite a healthy environment, and this did not bode well for Frances and Bridget and Vincent.

James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.

Here's the vital core of Winnicott's theory: The subject must destroy the object. And the object must survive this destruction. If the object doesn't survive, it will remain internal, a projection of the subject's self. If the object survives destruction, the subject can see it as separate.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

Albert Einstein creó su famosa ecuación E = mc2, que evidenció que la energía y la materia están tan inextricablemente ligadas que son lo mismo.

Let me explain, let me go into what we in the mathematics business like to call one big ole fucking goddamn shit-eating hypothesis

Depression and anxiety have three kinds of causes—biological, psychological, and social. They are all real, and none of these three can be described by something as crude as the idea of a chemical imbalance. The social and psychological causes have been ignored for a long time, even though it seems the biological causes don't even kick in without them. These causes aren't some kooky fringe theory, I would explain.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Dear friend, all theory is gray,And green the golden tree of life.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie und grün des Lebens goldner Baum

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.