Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Votes: 6
Immanuel KantThe theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Votes: 6
Karl MarxI've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. Votes: 6
Larry BirdI have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Votes: 4
Hunter S. ThompsonIn theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Votes: 4
Yogi BerraNever worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. Votes: 4
Robert A. HeinleinEven for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. Votes: 4
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. Votes: 4
Edward WestonNo amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Votes: 4
Albert EinsteinDo not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. Votes: 4
Arthur EddingtonTheory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something. Votes: 3
Mason CooleyTheory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. Votes: 3
Josh BillingsDefying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,' Votes: 3
Josef JoffeTheory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. Votes: 3
Linus TorvaldsIf the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. Votes: 3
Jefferson DavisIt is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. Votes: 3
Michael MoorcockTheory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. Votes: 3
Hermann HesseThe Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. Votes: 3
Eoin ColferFair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game. Votes: 3
Frederick LenzThe Omega Point Theory can be a solid foundation of support for all of the great human religions. Votes: 3
Frank TiplerThe whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. Votes: 2
Walt WhitmanMy theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff. Votes: 2
Blythe DannerA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Votes: 2
Manfred EigenRational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. Votes: 0
W. Edwards DemingProbability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation. Votes: 0
Pierre-Simon LaplaceMaybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. Votes: 0
Andrew LoThe classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. Votes: 0
Herbert A. SimonEveryone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult. Votes: 0
Charles FergusonDon't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonI use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities. Votes: 0
Thomas SchellingNo scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited. Votes: 0
Douglas YatesSelfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyFractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs. Votes: 0
Adam SavageThe cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingI worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinTalent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice. Votes: 0
Carl von ClausewitzPassing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness. Votes: 0
James McAvoyToday's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. Votes: 0
Kenneth L. PikeWe'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words... Votes: 0
Roman AbramovichEveryone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs. Votes: 0
Alexander LowenSince others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinNinety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements. Votes: 0
Claude MonetThe theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Votes: 0
Neil deGrasse TysonString theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century. Votes: 0
Edward WittenArchitecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. Votes: 0
Arthur EricksonI have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. Votes: 0
Robin InceThe world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change. Votes: 0
Stephen Jay GouldPhilosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. Votes: 0
Louis Althusser.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. Votes: 0
David HumeToday's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. Votes: 0
Kenneth Lee PikeI have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success. Votes: 0
Natasha LyonneContrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. Votes: 0
Karl PopperRelativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanA valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful. Votes: 0
Dean OrnishCoincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory. Votes: 0
Percy Williams BridgmanAll theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. Votes: 0
Chris ArgyrisMysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. Votes: 0
Thomas Balogh, Baron BaloghThere is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. Votes: 0
Kenneth R. MillerYou cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices. Votes: 0
Mark TwainMy theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere. Votes: 0
Dylan McDermottThere is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory Votes: 0
Kenneth R. MillerThe purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable. Votes: 0
Thomas Balogh, Baron BaloghThe theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. Votes: 0
J. Robert Oppenheimer"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely." Votes: 0
Harlan CobenIt is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer Votes: 0
Mikhail TalIn theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different. Votes: 0
Larry McVoyThe theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. Votes: 0
Michael BeheSomething unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonYoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory. Votes: 0
B.K.S. IyengarThe crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. Votes: 0
James TobinThe ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves. Votes: 0
Joseph-Louis LagrangeOur best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory. Votes: 0
Alan GuthLife is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone. Votes: 0
Tivadar Kosztka CsontvaryShe firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower. Votes: 0
Maureen JohnsonA political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible. Votes: 0
Francis Parker YockeyA political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible Votes: 0
Francis Parker YockeyVerse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience. Votes: 0
Mark BattersonLasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory. Votes: 0
Savielly TartakowerHegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author. Votes: 0
Allen W. WoodPlaying music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. Votes: 0
Derek BaileyWriting laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. Votes: 0
Elizabeth WarrenA good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsIf I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers Votes: 0
Warren Buffettone of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerI think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong. Votes: 0
Madonna CicconeThe word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory. Votes: 0
George MacDonaldThe state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory. Votes: 0
Teresa de LauretisThere's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. Votes: 0
Malcolm MuggeridgeA man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory. Votes: 0
Sarah Josepha HaleIdeals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonFacts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory. Votes: 0
Stephen Jay GouldIt is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins. Votes: 0
E. F. SchumacherIf [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinA theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonScientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand. Votes: 0
Cargill Gilston KnottThere is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonRecreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study. Votes: 0
Hendrik LenstraIf the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. Votes: 0
Jefferson DavisNever abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. Votes: 0
John McCarthyI want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. Votes: 0
Namsoon KangThe ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. Votes: 0
Sepp HerbergerThe worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Votes: 0
Phyllis SchlaflyAbstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultBlind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Votes: 0
Imre LakatosThe theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. Votes: 0
Peter R. GrantThink of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantIn theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Votes: 0
Manfred EigenA curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. Votes: 0
Jacques MonodThe problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution Votes: 0
Lance ParkinChange the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them Votes: 0
Bruno LatourSchrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonWhilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. Votes: 0
Alexander CalderIn the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. Votes: 0
Tucker CarlsonI see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector. Votes: 0
John Henry NewmanAnother thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanIn my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory Votes: 0
Ludwig BoltzmannI don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot. Votes: 0
Jerome CorsiAll theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. Votes: 0
Patricia ChurchlandChristianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices. Votes: 0
John B. S. HaldaneFor the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. Votes: 0
Jenny DiskiWhat good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? Votes: 0
Muhammad YunusI would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory. Votes: 0
August Wilhelm von HofmannProhibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. Votes: 0
Thomas Lansing MassonIf facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. Votes: 0
Baruch SpinozaI have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled. Votes: 0
Anne Rivers SiddonsEconomists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganThe current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. Votes: 0
Simon CritchleyI have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say. Votes: 0
Andrew BreitbartLangmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory. Votes: 0
Saul DushmanI have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory. Votes: 0
Marion CotillardA little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. Votes: 0
William Stanley JevonsQuantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life. Votes: 0
Anthony ZeeThe farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. Votes: 0
Irene Joliot-CurieIt is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore. Votes: 0
Carol BlyTruth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever. Votes: 0
Eartha KittPsychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. Votes: 0
Norman O. BrownI reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. Votes: 0
Robert P. MurphyIf a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. Votes: 0
Massimo PigliucciThe theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired. Votes: 0
Philip KotlerTantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzThe knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Votes: 0
Thomas B. MacaulayAny attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonAn expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom. Votes: 0
Steven LevittI have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself. Votes: 0
Meryl StreepAnecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it Votes: 0
Henry MintzbergThe power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain. Votes: 0
Elinor OstromScience is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyNo theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. Votes: 0
B. F. SkinnerWe do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense. Votes: 0
Steven T. ByingtonNo theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to. Votes: 0
Amos LeeI'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life. Votes: 0
Brian GreeneI've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more. Votes: 0
Cynthia RowleyIf a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. Votes: 0
Paul FarmerThe theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory. Votes: 0
Eric MaskinA study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleI have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowA man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts. Votes: 0
Joseph AlsopOur concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. Votes: 0
Gerrit Smith'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense. Votes: 0
Keith SullivanGita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaThe knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Votes: 0
Thomas Babington MacaulayTantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellMrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ... Votes: 0
Bess Streeter AldrichNormal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. Votes: 0
Thomas KuhnWhen you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. Votes: 0
Peter HiggsOne does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient. Votes: 0
Henri PoincareThere is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. Votes: 0
Pauline Kael[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice. Votes: 0
Michel FoucaultI always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. Votes: 0
Charlton HestonWhen I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. Votes: 0
Harrison BirtwistleFor me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. Votes: 0
Cristina SaraleguiI always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it. Votes: 0
Rau'Shee WarrenThe Law of Attraction is a theory. Cosmic Ordering is a practice putting that theory to work. Votes: 0
Stephen RichardsI had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked. Votes: 0
David GrossI worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. Votes: 0
Lionel HamptonIt proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee. Votes: 0
Steig LarssonMy goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light. Votes: 0
Olafur EliassonWhat I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. Votes: 0
Mark KnopflerA Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory. Votes: 0
Paul ErdosBeta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me. Votes: 0
Charlie MungerMy theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be. Votes: 0
Robert MapplethorpeIt is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it. Votes: 0
Kedar JoshiA theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong Votes: 0
Francis CrickThe electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real. Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanThere can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanThe Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaIf you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. Votes: 0
Mao ZedongI think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil. Votes: 0
Penn JilletteI have a theory that everyone is as odd as I am when they are alone. Don Tillman Votes: 0
Graeme SimsionI've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies Votes: 0
Joy HarjoWhen love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing. Votes: 0
Bob GoffEvolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsYou know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you. Votes: 0
Charles HaugheySocrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneAhimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. Votes: 0
Mahatma Gandhi...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person. Votes: 0
Erin MorgensternIt is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it. Votes: 0
James Freeman ClarkeMy theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that? Votes: 0
Gemma HallidayYou can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it. Votes: 0
Josephine LawrenceI have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. Votes: 0
JewelIf a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. Votes: 0
Morris Raphael CohenTo explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping. Votes: 0
Sidney MorgenbesserWe must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.â Votes: 0
Claude BernardThere is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyMy theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot. Votes: 0
Moon BloodgoodWe wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerI have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be. Votes: 0
Channing TatumThe rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose. Votes: 0
Robert FrostIf the âgerm theory of diseaseâ were correct, thereâd be no one living to believe it.
B. J. PalmerEverything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
Agatha ChristieThe power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.
Alfred North WhiteheadYou know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
Alice NeelSocialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.
H. L. MenckenIn fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.
Hans Christian von BaeyerI can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.
Stephen Jay GouldBoth the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
Andrew YoungAll significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
Carl SchmittSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
Charles DarwinI was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.
David BrooksThat's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.
Don DeLilloWe may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
James JeansTo build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
Kenneth WaltzConventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
Mark LynasIn no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
Martin GardnerI have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.
Nora EphronMy theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.
Tom T. HallA theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Albert EinsteinIn the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
C. S. LewisI don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.
Emma GoldmanI got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.
Gerard WayLater generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
Henri PoincareA theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
Jane SmileyThere are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.
John Alexander DowieIt's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed
John Lithgow...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.
Julia ChildScience is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.
Lisa RandallCharles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...
Stephen Jay GouldI see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory
Vern PoythressI have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider - and also FOX News makes people stupider.
Bill MaherThe idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.
J. J. AbramsThe canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
Kurt VonnegutWhen it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
Vilfredo ParetoImplication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
Willard Van Orman QuineI pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
Winston ChurchillI think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.
Evan Rachel WoodThere is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
Jaron LanierUntil the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.
Leonard RavenhillI imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.
Ralph PetersA theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
Thomas NagelGarden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.
Tom TurnerDespite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.
Vasily SmyslovOn quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.
Albert Einstein... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...
Alexander KotovOne of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.
Benjamin FranklinI mean, I'm the tag of the [ Big Bang Theory ] show! That was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.
Brent SpinerOne must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude SteinI used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".
Israel GelfandThe conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"
Karl PopperI think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.
Robert AumannOne of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases
Simon NewcombMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
Toni Morrison