Theory Quotes

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

~ Niels Bohr

True, the Standard Model does explain a very great deal. Nevertheless it is not yet a proper theory, principally because it does not satisfy the physicists naive faith in elegance and simplicity. It involves some 17 allegedly fundamental particles and the same number of arbitrary and tunable parameters, such as the fine-structure constants, the muon-electron mass ratio and the various mysterious mixing angles.

~ Sheldon L. Glashow

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

~ Ernest Rutherford

Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.

~ Tsung-Dao Lee

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

~ Winston S. Churchill

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

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

Stories were migrants, blow-ins, border-crossers, tunnellers from France and Italy and more distant territories where earlier and similar stories had been passed on in Arabic and Persian and Chinese and Sanskrit.

~ Marina Warner

That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

~ Rohinton Mistry

We are all different in every individual person. But from here I ask myself what do they see when I see a car which is red, what colour do they see, do they see also red and is the same colour which I know red for them?

~ Deyth Banger

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the free will owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.

~ Fredric Jameson

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

~ Mark Twain

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

~ Ernst Cassirer

The best questions to ask a killer or ask yourself after an event done by a killer is...Why he did it...How he was trapped in this...Did somebody put him there.......

~ Deyth Banger

I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility.

~ Deyth Banger

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

~ Umberto Eco

String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

~ Brian Greene

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

~ Mark Russell

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

~ Unknown

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

~ David Hilbert

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

~ Kenneth R. Miller

There is no complete theory of anything.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

~ Wilhelm Reich

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

~ H. L. Mencken

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

~ Preston Sturges

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

~ Pete Mccloskey

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

~ Albert Einstein

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

~ Paul Watzlawick

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

~ Wesley Snipes

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

~ Mike Myers

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

~ Thomas Jefferson