Theory Quotes

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.

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

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.

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.

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

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

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

We see the world in terms of our theories.

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

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

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

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

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

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

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

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

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

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

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

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

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

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

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

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

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

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

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

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

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.

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.

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

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

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

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.

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

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