Quotes about theory
theory relation experiments
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. Imre Lakatos
theory falsification emergence
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
theory hypothesis results
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.
theory performances supreme
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance Leonardo da Vinci
theory-of-evolution numbers origin-of-life
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence. Fred Hoyle
theory absolute-truth absolutes
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth Kenneth R. Miller
theory controversy core
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory
theory
Come with me and . . . think about the electromagnetic theory of light. Albert Einstein
theory wanted
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
theory incomplete
Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete Isaac Asimov
theory
There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. Christina Ricci
theory publishing
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. George Stigler
theory-of-evolution president remember
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? George Will
theory conditions
It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory. Grover Cleveland
theory humans knows
That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human. Gene Weingarten
theory dangerous dangerous-things
[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
theory-of-evolution creative existence
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. Michael Polanyi
theory wisest
Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. Michel de Montaigne
theory concern discussion
Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion. Mason Cooley
theory-of-evolution facts cosmos
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Neil deGrasse Tyson
theory mess
All the theories mess you up inside. Paul Cezanne
theory importance theory-of-life
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself Oscar Wilde
theory corpses unified
The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories. Freeman Dyson
theory-of-evolution dams cheese
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. Eoin Colfer
theory reactions minimalism
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
theory-of-evolution characteristics inconsistent
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. Gary L. Francione
theory
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. Georg C. Lichtenberg
theory-of-evolution atheism would-be
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. Steven Pinker
theory approach
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. Edward Weston
theory-of-evolution littles faces
I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position. Friedrich August von Hayek
theory evidence ifs
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence. John Brunner
theory ahimsa knows
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God. Mahatma Gandhi
theory bits
I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory! Olga Kurylenko