Quotes About Theory

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

CBS's Major Garrett writes in 'National Journal' about a new version of the 'stray voltage' theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.

Pellerin used to read every available book on aesthetics, in the hope of discovering the true theory of Beauty, for he was convinced that once he had found it he would be able to paint masterpieces.

Darwin. Celui qui dit que nous descendons du singe.

Republicanul îi guverna cu asprime. Om al teoriilor, nu preÈ›uia decît masele È™i se ar?ta f?r? mil? fa?? de indivizi./ Le républicain les gouvernait durement. Homme de théories, il ne considérait que les masses et se montrait impitoyable pour les individus. (©BeQ)

La théorie révolutionnaire est maintenant ennemie de toute idéologie révolutionnaire, et elle sait qu'elle l'est.

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

It is absurd to say that mathematicians have not discovered the fourth dimension.

So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell. Not basically, Win corrected. Entirely.

When he finished telling her about the kidnapping, Esperanza's first words were an incredulous, "Win has a mother?" "Yep." Pause. "There goes my spawned-from-a-satanic-egg theory.

Most people oversimplify Occam's razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn't complicate, that you shouldn't "stack" a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess.

The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.

I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information.

My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.

I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

Time travel is possible. Will explain later

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.