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Theory Quotes

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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.
Karl Popper

Whenever an explanation appears to be the only rational option, take this as a signal that you have not grasped the concept or the issue it was intended to address.
Authors on Theory Quotes: Albert Einstein Karl Popper Arthur Eddington W. Edwards Deming Brian Greene Imre Lakatos Elliott Sober Richard P. Feynman Stephen Hawking Jean Baudrillard Stephen Jay Gould Mason Cooley Ralph Waldo Emerson Noam Chomsky Michael Crichton Thomas Malthus Mahatma Gandhi Terry Pratchett Isaac Asimov Alice Neel George Stigler Ellen G. White Neil deGrasse Tyson E. O. Wilson Nassim Nicholas Taleb Anthony de Mello William Whewell Joan Robinson Jerry A. Coyne Allen Tate Walt Whitman Samuel Johnson E. W. Howe
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A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.
Joseph John Thomson

A scientific theory is an aid and not a dogma.
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Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Henry Ford

Be prepared to modify any process, abolish any technique, discard any concept, if achieving the goal necessitates it.
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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
Lucretia Mott

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
Jack Nicklaus

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Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.
Lord Kelvin

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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
Rafael Nadal

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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
Ernest Rutherford

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I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.
Bill Hicks

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There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
Elizabeth Joan Smith

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We see the world in terms of our theories.
Thomas Kuhn

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There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.
John Alexander Dowie

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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.
Alan Guth

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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley

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Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
Ludwig Boltzmann

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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Felix Klein

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I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed.
Nikola Tesla

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Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
Brian Cox

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I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works.
John Marston

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I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.
Cynthia Rowley

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The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
Irene Joliot-Curie

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I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle.
Richard Wiseman

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Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.
Bo Burnham

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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
Francis Crick

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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
Rudolph A. Marcus

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[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
Michel Foucault

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Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul
Carl Jung

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My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
Boman Irani

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The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.
Philip Kotler

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There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
Leonid Brezhnev

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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall

32.
My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.
Asa Butterfield

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Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
Bruno Latour

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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present
Russell Kirk

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An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati

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Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
Chaim Weizmann

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I have a theory that theories are destructive.
Carl Whitaker

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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
William Wordsworth

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There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
Kurt Lewin

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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
Baruch Spinoza

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Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.
Romain Rolland

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The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
Elinor Ostrom

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Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.
Kevin Plank

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The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.
Hannah Whitall Smith

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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
Bela Lugosi

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Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.
Robert Andrews Millikan

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Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.
Jean-Martin Charcot

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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William of Ockham

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The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
Eddie Van Halen

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I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.
Ryan Tedder