Quotes About Theories

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world. But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things.

Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils incident to society in every shape?

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.

When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.

My dad, bless him, he was never into Marvel before, but now he's obsessed with it. When I got the job, he started watching his way through the films, and he's got all these different YouTubers that he now watches for theories, and he tries to get spoilers out of me.

I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the damnation of others; theories that demonstrate that their particular group has been exclusively endowed with divine truth, so that they possess a unique mission to the world and have a unique authority within it.

Our faith became a competitive theology with various parochial theories of salvation, instead of a universal cosmology inside of which all can live with an inherent dignity.

It was strange, in a way, that now it was only the people he remembered. At the time he had never thought about people at all, but only of issues, of theories and dogmas and the masses, and now that it was all over and half his brain had been lost in the fight he never thought of the issues at all. Charles

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

The bookish theoric.

Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away.

he was mainly a romantic comrade who had a series of intense relationships with young men, most of whom went on to get married and have children. Whatever the nature of his physical relationships with them, most of the passages about same-sex love in his poems were not out of keeping with then-current theories and practices that underscored the healthiness of such love.

There are many theories about how tapas came to refer to food. Some believe early tapas were slices of bread or cheese placed on top of drinks.

Only grand theories can illuminate long-term patterns, structures, systemic contradictions and historical shifts that may be difficult to discern, hard to understand or obscured by countless events of fleeting relevance. Yet, it is those patterns and structures that frame the trajectory of the concrete over time; that is, the making of history.

Las teorías sirven para irritar a los filisteos, para seducir a los estetas y para que los demás se rían

Is anyone still so naive as to imagine that theories are meant to be believed? Theories serve to annoy philistines, appeal to aesthetes, and amuse the rest of us.

Theories serve to annoy philistines, appeal to aesthetes, and amuse the rest of us.

It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children. She took a keen interest in Psychology (the Art Babblative, Southey calls it). She was full of theories about their upbringing which she had not time to put into effect; but nevertheless she thought she had a deep understanding of their temperaments and was the center of their passionate devotion.

Freud is completely obsessed with the nonsense about infantile sexual theories. There may possibly be children in Germany or Austria sufficiently morbid, but nothing of the sort ever crossed my own mind when I was a child—nor have I ever met a child so morbid.

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. but many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.