Top 1200 Scientific Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

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

Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.

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

Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems.

The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

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

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

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

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

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

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

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

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

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

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

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

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

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

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

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

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

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

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

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

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

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

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

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

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it to capital markets. When you look at capital markets through the lens of complexity theory, you ask "what's the scale of the system?" Scale is a fancy word for size. What measures are you using? If you look at total debt, the concentration of assets in the five largest banks, what percentage of the total assets of the five largest banks are interconnected? What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

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

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.

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

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

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