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It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
— Saul Kripke
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.
— Milton Friedman
There is no knowledge without theory.
— W. Edwards Deming
When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
— Albert Einstein
I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.
— Rob Thomas
Life is so unlike theory.
— Anthony Trollope
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
— Marcus Valerius Martialis
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.
— Harrison Birtwistle
Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The theory of government changes with general progress.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Perhaps we should address fact of man-made pollution instead of focus on the theory of man-made global warming.
— Russell Eric Dobda
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
— Rudolf Arnheim
I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
— Park Chan-wook
Still, as I have said, accepting that God loved me was something I did only on the level of theory.
— Rod Dreher
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
— Mourning Dove
The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.
— Lois Greiman
When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.
— Agatha Christie
proportional to the absolute temperature, in quantitative agreement with theory (Curie's law).
— Erwin Schrodinger
Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.
— Emanuel Lasker
Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.
— Frederick Lenz
If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
— Terry Eagleton
Einstein's theory of General Relativity has a mathematical structure very similar to Yang-Mills theory.
— Chen-Ning Yang
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
— Terence McKenna
Is that theory true which would have us believe that man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors -
— Viktor E. Frankl
My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.
— Terry Pratchett
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
— H.L. Mencken
Observations always involve theory.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
— Heinz Von Foerster
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
— Noam Chomsky
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies
— Joy Harjo
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme ...
— Karl Popper
It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.
— Edward Witten
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
— Thomas Jefferson
The price of gaining such an accurate theory has been the erosion of our common sense.
— Richard Feynman
Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.
— Robert Rankin
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Life without madness is mediocrity.
— Nelou Keramati
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
— John Wilmot
Who continued their new policy of feigning deafness whenever Harry mentioned his Malfoy-Is-a-Death-Eater theory.
— J.K. Rowling
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
— Charles Darwin
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
— Steven Wright
Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
— Kurt Lewin
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
— Thomas L. Masson
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
— Thomas Huxley
I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
— James Hetfield
Everybody has a theory.
— Daniel Handler
An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.
— Vishnudevananda Saraswati
If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.
— Albert Einstein
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
— Gary L. Francione
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
— James Stephens
Not every conspiracy is a theory,
— James Badge Dale
My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.
— Mary McGrory
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
I don't hold water with that theory
— Ron Greenwood
Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
— Janusz Korczak
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[Concerning Lyotard's ideology:]... Theory ought to be recognized as part of the problem, not as a potential solution.
— Bill Readings
The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Political correctness is a war on noticing.
— Steve Sailer
Interactive Decision Theory would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.
— Robert Aumann
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
The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The
— Michael Crichton
M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
— Stephen Hawking
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
— George Santayana
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I think that Utopia is a theory of human action ...
— Cory Doctorow
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.
— Abhijit Naskar
When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours.
— Debasish Mridha
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.
— Christopher Hampton
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Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general.
— Siobhan Maclean
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
— Martin Seligman
There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
— Elizabeth Joan Smith
Between the theories and your life, choose your life.
— Marty Rubin