Quotes About Theory

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

Traditional theories of human creativity ascribe it to inspiration from a higher source working through the creative individual, who acts as a channel. The same conception underlies the notion of genius; originally the genius was not the person himself but his presiding god or spirit.

We should qualify this observation to say that a constitution is more likely to last if it does not embody a misfit economic theory.

What kind of theorist?' 'The worst kind,' murmured De Courcy. 'A prancing theorist.

Physics is geometric proof on steroids.

Homage to the Buddha: Such truly is he: free from impurities, having destroyed all mental defilements, fully enlightened by his own efforts, perfect in theory and in practice, having reached the final goal, knowing the entire universe, incomparable trainer of men, teacher of gods and humans, the Buddha, the Exalted One.

the theory that if New York punk was about art, and London punk about politics, L.A. punk was about pop culture, TV, and absurdity.

But in reality what Einstein had done was devise a theory that was decades ahead of its time. Experimental measurements had to catch up to his model of gravity, which had been fashioned from pure intuitive thought.

Epicurus however is a more troublesome opponent, because he is a combination of two different sorts of pleasure, and because besides himself and his friends there have been so many later champions of his theory, which somehow or other enlists the support of that least competent but most powerful adherent, the general public.

Dr. B. A. Behrend, commenting on the presentation, said, "Not since the appearance of Faraday's 'Experimental Researches in Electricity' has a great experimental truth been voiced so simply and so clearly…. He left nothing to be done by those who followed him. His paper contained the skeleton even of the mathematical theory."3

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero.

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.