Quotes and Sayings About Theory
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And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
-- A. C. CuzaSource : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
-- Adam Savage -
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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
-- Alan GuthSource : "Alan Guth: What Made the Big Bang Bang" by Neil Swidey, www.bostonglobe.com. May 02, 2014.
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
-- Albert BanduraSource : APA Address, 1998.
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is the theory which decides what we can observe
-- Albert Einstein -
At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.
-- Albert Einstein -
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
-- Albert Einstein -
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
-- Albert Einstein -
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
-- Albert Einstein -
Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.
-- Alexander Lowen -
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
-- Alexander Pope -
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
-- Alice Neel -
You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
-- Alice Neel -
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
-- Allen Tate -
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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
-- Allen Tate -
Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.
-- Amit GoswamiSource : Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.136, Penguin
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I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
-- Amos Lee -
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
-- Anne Carson -
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I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinionsâ€. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
-- Anthony de Mello -
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
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I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
-- Anton Yelchin -
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
-- Antonin Artaud