Quotes About Theory

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Observations always involve theory.

and laughed at his theories, and proved that no man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

But at the same time, the humanist in me was always a bit troubled by the rather bleak, rather unappetizing picture the theory painted of the human condition—forever striving to justify our actions after the fact.

That is, when I said above that dissonance theory made clear predictions at its core, what I implicitly meant by at its core were situations in which the person's self-concept was at issue.

In fact, extracted from the metatheory, the central element of Festinger's theory boils down to this: A person can experience an unpleasant state of arousal (state of dissonance) that can be quantified by a ratio (the dissonance ratio; see Chapter 2, this volume, for further explanation) and is reduced when this ratio decreases. Cognitions are relevant and taken into consideration only to the degree that they allow for composing this ratio.

Dissonance theory and research also played a pioneering role in a second way. By highlighting the often paradoxical and even self-defeating ways that humans frequently deal with the world, dissonance theory was the first comprehensive model to focus our attention on the landscape of human irrationality and the genesis of suboptimal judgments and behaviors.

The original statement of cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) proposed that discrepancy between cognitions creates a negative affective state that motivates individuals to attempt to reduce or eliminate the discrepancy between cognitions

Self-perception theory (Bem, 1967, 1972) argues that dissonance effects were not the result of motivation to reduce the psychological discomfort produced by cognitive dissonance but were due to a nonmotivational process whereby persons merely inferred their attitudes from their behavior and the circumstances under which the behavior occurred.

Never trust an experimental result until it has been confirmed by theory

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.

do not think I have ever met with a single fact which seems to me to justify the theory, of which Dr. von Martius is perhaps the leading advocate, that the ordinary condition of the savage is the result of degeneration from a far higher state.

The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system. "But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." Matthew 5:37

Now in Russia they got it mapped out, so that everyone pulls for everyone else: that's the theory, anyway. But what I know about is Texas. And, down here, you're on your own.

Los posmodernos, al aparentar que iban aún más allá de la teoría situacionista, en verdad la convirtieron en lo contrario de lo que era.

No theory adequately covers reality.