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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Votes: 2
Immanuel KantThe theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Votes: 2
Neil deGrasse TysonIn theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Votes: 2
Yogi BerraOur best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory. Votes: 2
Alan GuthTheories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. Votes: 2
Michael PolanyiIn theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Votes: 2
Manfred EigenNever abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. Votes: 2
John McCarthyThe theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory. Votes: 2
Eric MaskinNo theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. Votes: 2
B. F. SkinnerA 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 LaplaceEveryone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult. Votes: 0
Charles FergusonMaybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. Votes: 0
Andrew LoDon't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonThe classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. Votes: 0
Herbert A. SimonTalent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice. Votes: 0
Carl von ClausewitzFractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs. Votes: 0
Adam SavageI worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinNo scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited. Votes: 0
Douglas YatesPassing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness. Votes: 0
James McAvoyThe cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingI use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities. Votes: 0
Thomas SchellingSelfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyArchitecture 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 InceSince others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinConventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. Votes: 0
Mark LynasA valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful. Votes: 0
Dean OrnishToday'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 AbramovichI have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success. Votes: 0
Natasha LyonneTheory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyDefying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,' Votes: 0
Josef Joffe.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. Votes: 0
David HumeMy theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere. Votes: 0
Dylan McDermottThe whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanThere 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 TwainNinety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements. Votes: 0
Claude MonetRelativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanThe world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change. Votes: 0
Stephen Jay GouldThere is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory. Votes: 0
Kenneth R. MillerOne 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 EinsteinTheory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsEveryone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs. Votes: 0
Alexander LowenToday's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. Votes: 0
Kenneth Lee PikePhilosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory. Votes: 0
Louis AlthusserString theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century. Votes: 0
Edward WittenContrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements. Votes: 0
Karl PopperGerm theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. Votes: 0
Jill LeporeThe modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. Votes: 0
Thomas Balogh, Baron BaloghCoincidence 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 GoetheYoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory. Votes: 0
B.K.S. IyengarVerse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience. Votes: 0
Mark BattersonIn theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different. Votes: 0
Larry McVoyThe ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves. Votes: 0
Joseph-Louis LagrangeAll significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts. Votes: 0
Carl SchmittSomething unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonFacts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory. Votes: 0
Stephen Jay GouldHegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author. Votes: 0
Allen W. WoodIf I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers Votes: 0
Warren BuffettPlaying music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. Votes: 0
Derek BaileyI can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know. Votes: 0
Stephen Jay GouldShe firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower. Votes: 0
Maureen JohnsonThe theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. Votes: 0
Michael BeheThe purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable. Votes: 0
Thomas Balogh, Baron BaloghA good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsLife is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone. Votes: 0
Tivadar Kosztka CsontvaryA political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible. Votes: 0
Francis Parker YockeyA man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory. Votes: 0
Sarah Josepha HaleThe state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory. Votes: 0
Teresa de Lauretis"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely." Votes: 0
Harlan CobenThe word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory. Votes: 0
George MacDonaldone of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. Votes: 0
Arthur KoestlerThere's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. Votes: 0
Malcolm MuggeridgeIdeals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. Votes: 0
Laurell K. HamiltonLasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory. Votes: 0
Savielly TartakowerA political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible Votes: 0
Francis Parker YockeyIt is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins. Votes: 0
E. F. SchumacherI have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. Votes: 0
Hunter S. ThompsonWriting laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. Votes: 0
Elizabeth WarrenI think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong. Votes: 0
Madonna CicconeThe crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. Votes: 0
James TobinThe theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. Votes: 0
J. Robert OppenheimerIt is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer Votes: 0
Mikhail TalTheory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. Votes: 0
Linus TorvaldsA theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicty of its premises is. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinIf [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinWhilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonBlind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Votes: 0
Imre LakatosIf the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. Votes: 0
Jefferson DavisIn my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory Votes: 0
Ludwig BoltzmannIf the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. Votes: 0
Jefferson DavisThe worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Votes: 0
Phyllis SchlaflyMy whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement. Votes: 0
Alexander CalderThe patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. Votes: 0
Sepp HerbergerEven for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. Votes: 0
Jacques MonodThe theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. Votes: 0
Peter R. GrantScientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand. Votes: 0
Cargill Gilston KnottAbstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultThe problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution Votes: 0
Lance ParkinIn the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. Votes: 0
Tucker CarlsonSchrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonChange the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them Votes: 0
Bruno LatourI want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect. Votes: 0
Namsoon KangThe theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Votes: 0
Karl MarxI see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector. Votes: 0
John Henry NewmanRecreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study. Votes: 0
Hendrik LenstraIf facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. Votes: 0
Baruch SpinozaChristianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices. Votes: 0
John B. S. HaldaneI have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory. Votes: 0
Marion CotillardI have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say. Votes: 0
Andrew BreitbartWhat good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? Votes: 0
Muhammad YunusAll theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFor the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. Votes: 0
Jenny DiskiNever worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinI would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory. Votes: 0
August Wilhelm von HofmannLangmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory. Votes: 0
Saul DushmanQuantum 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-CurieAnother thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanThere is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. Votes: 0
Patricia ChurchlandProhibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. Votes: 0
Thomas Lansing MassonA little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. Votes: 0
William Stanley JevonsIt is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore. Votes: 0
Carol BlyThe current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox. Votes: 0
Simon CritchleyEconomists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganI don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot. Votes: 0
Jerome CorsiTo build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous. Votes: 0
Kenneth WaltzThink of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantI have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled. Votes: 0
Anne Rivers SiddonsThe knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Votes: 0
Thomas B. MacaulayThe power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain. Votes: 0
Elinor OstromNormal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. Votes: 0
Thomas KuhnIf 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 KotlerPsychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. Votes: 0
Norman O. BrownGita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaTantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0
Frederick Lenz[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice. Votes: 0
Michel FoucaultScience is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyWe do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonTantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. Votes: 0
Robert P. MurphyI would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. Votes: 0
Paul FarmerAnecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it Votes: 0
Henry MintzbergMrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ... Votes: 0
Bess Streeter AldrichThat's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly. Votes: 0
Don DeLilloTruth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever. Votes: 0
Eartha KittDo not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. Votes: 0
Arthur EddingtonOne theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships. Votes: 0
Arthur C. ClarkeIf a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself. Votes: 0
Meryl StreepIt is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. Votes: 0
Michael MoorcockAs for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. Votes: 0
Arthur CayleyI've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more. Votes: 0
Cynthia RowleyI have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowA study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleWhen you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. Votes: 0
Peter HiggsI don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to. Votes: 0
Amos LeeSocialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenOur concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. Votes: 0
Gerrit SmithAny attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. Votes: 0
Terry EagletonNo theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself Votes: 0
Oscar WildeAn expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom. Votes: 0
Steven LevittTheory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. Votes: 0
Hermann HesseThe knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Votes: 0
Thomas Babington MacaulayThere is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. Votes: 0
Pauline KaelOne does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient. Votes: 0
Henri PoincareI'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life. Votes: 0
Brian GreeneSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinAnarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense. Votes: 0
Steven T. ByingtonA man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts. Votes: 0
Joseph AlsopBoth the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. Votes: 0
Andrew Young'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense. Votes: 0
Keith SullivanThe theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. Votes: 0
Jean-Baptiste SayBut while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science. Votes: 0
Claude BernardI have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up. Votes: 0
Nora EphronThe Law of Attraction is a theory. Cosmic Ordering is a practice putting that theory to work. Votes: 0
Stephen RichardsThe power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadEverything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieA 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 MungerIt is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it. Votes: 0
Kedar JoshiI think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil. Votes: 0
Penn JilletteThe electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real. Votes: 0
Richard P. FeynmanMy goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light. Votes: 0
Olafur EliassonFor me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story. Votes: 0
Cristina SaraleguiWhat I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. Votes: 0
Mark KnopflerI worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. Votes: 0
Lionel HamptonMy theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be. Votes: 0
Robert MapplethorpeI always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it. Votes: 0
Rau'Shee WarrenThe Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. Votes: 0
Eoin ColferWhen I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. Votes: 0
Harrison BirtwistleA theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong Votes: 0
Francis CrickMy theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff. Votes: 0
Blythe DannerIt proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee. Votes: 0
Steig LarssonIf you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. Votes: 0
Mao ZedongI always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. Votes: 0
Charlton HestonThere can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. Votes: 0
Walt WhitmanI had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked. Votes: 0
David GrossThe Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaI've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies Votes: 0
Joy HarjoYou can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it. Votes: 0
Josephine LawrenceIn fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content. Votes: 0
Hans Christian von BaeyerWhen love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing. Votes: 0
Bob GoffI have a theory that everyone is as odd as I am when they are alone. Don Tillman Votes: 0
Graeme SimsionIn no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. Votes: 0
Martin GardnerIt is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it. Votes: 0
James Freeman ClarkeAhimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMy theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that? Votes: 0
Gemma Halliday...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person. Votes: 0
Erin MorgensternFair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game. Votes: 0
Frederick LenzYou know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you. Votes: 0
Charles HaugheyEvolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsSocrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneI was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. Votes: 0
David BrooksIf the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake. Votes: 0
Brian GreeneYou know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you. Votes: 0
Alice NeelWe must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.â Votes: 0
Claude BernardWe wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerI 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 CohenThere 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 BloodgoodTo explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping. Votes: 0
Sidney MorgenbesserI have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be. Votes: 0
Channing TatumIt is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture. Votes: 0
Erma BombeckMy theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all. Votes: 0
Tom T. HallThe 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. PalmerA 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