41 Quotes on Theory

• My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

  Author: Jessica Alba

• Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

  Author: Rudolf Arnheim

• I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

  Author: John Barton

• Just as a finely tuned design can rouse the scales, the journey to intellectual trueness transforms solid thoughts into an expansive multiverse of peso-termed meanings.

  Author: Irina Michaels

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

  Author: Niels Bohr

• My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

  Author: Billy Bragg

• Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

  Author: Wilfred Burchett

• Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

  Author: Ty Cobb

• I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

  Author: Marion Cotillard

• If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

  Author: Jefferson Davis

• They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

  Author: Alan Dundes

• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  Author: Manfred Eigen

• It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

  Author: Richard Feynman

• The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

  Author: Martin Fleischmann

• My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

  Author: Victor Garber

• Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

  Author: Linda Godwin

• The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

  Author: Peter Grant

• A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

  Author: Brian Greene

• You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

  Author: Christopher Hampton

• Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

  Author: Robert Heinlein

• I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

  Author: Jewel

• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  Author: R. Laing

• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  Author: Imre Lakatos

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  Author: Imre Lakatos

• My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

  Author: Tommy Lasorda

• Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

  Author: John McCarthy

• I don't like writing essays or theory.

  Author: Adrian Mitchell

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

  Author: Mike Myers

• The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

  Author: Roger Penrose

• Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

  Author: Kenneth Pike

• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  Author: Karl Popper

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

  Author: Mark Russell

• Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• There is no complete theory of anything.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

  Author: Edward Witten

• On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.

  Author: Edward Witten

• On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• In the shimmering dance between particles and ideals, we discover a serene pulse echoing the harmony within chaos, presenting an art expressive as the silence mimicked in our consciousness.

  Author: Liora Barnes