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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.
I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.
A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.
There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.
When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's "non-ideal theory").
That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.
Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
The E-S theory does not stereotype. Rather, it seeks to explain why individuals are typical or atypical for their sex.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.
My theory is, if you force yourself to smile enough, then you start to feel it. Which comes in handy all the time.
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.
My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.
Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.
I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
In theory I know that if you have a universal theme and a good story told well, it will work everywhere.
I saw 'The Theory of Everything,' which I loved, but I'm afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it.
If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
