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I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.
— Philip Kitcher
A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
— China Mieville
The calcium theory has probably done more to damage our health than any single theory in the history of humanity.
— David Wolfe
There is no way to learn endurance other than simply to endure. We can't learn it in principle or in theory; only pain can teach it to us.
— Chris Tiegreen
My theory is that everything in your screenplay is there to explore the theme
— William C. Martell
The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.
— Thomas Jefferson
While guidebooks might tell you that time collapsed here, another theory says that in Latin America, all of history coexists at once.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.
— Rob Thomas
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I have a theory and it goes something like this: What happens in Vegas can sometimes follow you home." - Lola Avocado
— M.D. Martin
In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.
— Jon Evans
The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.
— Walker Percy
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
— Arthur Eddington
In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.
— Robert Metcalfe
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
— Lydia Davis
Transparent is a drama/comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories. It's that good.
— David Bianculli
You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.
— Eric Weiner
I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.
— Karl Popper
If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.
— Jose Mourinho
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
— Claude Bernard
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
— Geoffrey West
We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.
— Whitney Johnson
For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon.
— Grafton Tanner
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We see the world in terms of our theories.
— Thomas Kuhn
You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.
— John Carew
No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.
— Ulysses S. Grant
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
— Gerard Debreu
Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.
— Vasily Smyslov
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
— J.J. Abrams
Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory
— Alexander Pushkin
In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.
— Gary Hopkins
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
— Robert Delaunay
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
— C.S. Lewis
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
— Lionel Hampton
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
— James Tobin
Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.
— Edward Abbey
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.
— Harold Davenport
The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.
— Kent Hovind
Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.
— Donald Davidson
That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?
— Shmuel Weinberger
I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.
— Kevin Michel
In terms of game theory, the opposite of a failed tactic is not necessarily success.
— Robert Ferrigno
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
— Bernard Bailyn
I don't believe in the no-carb diet ... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
— Karisma Kapoor
If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
— Mao Zedong
Should Cassandra initiate us, Sibyl? Matt asked, his eyes narrowed like he was testing a dangerous theory that could blow up in his face.
— Josephine Angelini
The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts - the cells.
— Theodor Schwann
In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.
— Albert Einstein
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
— Mo Ibrahim
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
— Thomas Huxley
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
— Heinz Von Foerster
Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
— Janusz Korczak
It's the role of narrative to... bridge the gap between philosophy as abstract theory, ideas in the ether, and life as lived on the ground.
— Jacob M. Held
a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.
— Stephen Hawking
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
— Benito Mussolini
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
— James Jeans
Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.
— George Russell
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
— Albert Einstein
The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects
— Johnny Rich
The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
— Albert Einstein
The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.
— Stephen D. Krashen
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
— Eric Whitacre
David Deutsch, in The Fabric of Reality, embraces the 'many worlds' interpretation of quantum theory,
— Richard Dawkins
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
— Evgeny Morozov
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
— Martin Gardner
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
I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.
— Emmanuelle Chriqui
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.
— John Frohnmayer
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.
— Margaret Mead
