Top 1200 Probability Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

Facts do not 'speak for themselves'; they are read in the light of theory.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

I never studied film theory, so I don't know the terminology.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

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

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance.

A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

My theory is to let everyone in on what works and let the best man win.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

I've always had this theory that if you're good at something, you should do it.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.

'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

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

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.