Quotes About Theory

I've always thought that Freud's theory of penis envy was fairly ridiculous -- but I'm absolutely certain that if you put a piece of bread in your mouth and suck on it you'll go to heaven.

Science is just the latest theory we have, and as soon as another one comes along, a new discovery, a new way of interpreting them, then there's a new answer! It's not like mathematics that always adds up the same way, if you do it right. Science is a method of reaching a conclusion, not a conclusion itself.

He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.

I have another theory about the devil. There's more than one of them and nobody appointed much likes the job.

One way to figure out a great theory is to look at what's working in the real world and figure out what the various successes have in common. With

Entropy is the information contained in a physical system that is invisible to us.

Yet Laplace had built his probability theory on intuition. As far as he was concerned, essentially, the theory of probability is nothing but good common sense reduced to mathematics. It provides an exact appreciation of what sound minds feel with a kind of instinct, frequently without being able to account for it.

Jethri had lately formed the theory that this reluctance to offer information was not what a Terran would call spitefulness, but courtesy. It would be—an insult, if his reading of the tapes was right, to assume that another person was ignorant of any particular something.

language that felt linked to my experience. In the sixties, the physicist John Stewart Bell theorized that particles that were once connected will, when separated, behave as if still connected, regardless of the distance between them. Some years later a French physicist, Alain Aspect, conducted experiments offering physical proof of Bell's theorem.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

The question had been complicated by the advocacy of some good men, who saw in the separation of the white and black races in the schools of the Nation a dangerous tendency toward the creation of class distinctions in our American life. It was the expression of a theory of equality right in itself, but which it would have been fatal at that moment to enforce.

A theory is a broad way of organizing and rendering intelligible the observable data uncovered by scientific exploration. And nothing becomes a scientific "fact" except in the context of an overarching theory. Theory is not something that dissolves or disappears once we get to the "facts." It abides as the intelligible context in which all facts are identified as such.

He also embraced a cyclical theory of history. History, he believed, flowed in cycles. Infant nations were virtuous and uncorrupted, but with age they grew tainted, eventually falling into decline and succumbing to their encumbering maladies and vices.

Nou ja, we kennen allemaal die theorie dat de wereld een grote schotel op de rug van een reusachtige schildpad is. - Thorn