Theory Quotes - Page 20

• It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Science

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 3

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• The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

  Justus von Liebig

  Fun, Science, Experiments

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• Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?" Artemis blinked. "Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity.

  Eoin Colfer

  Thinking, Doctors, Fowl

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• I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

  Amish Tripathi

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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• 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.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Believe, Men

  Garth Stein (2011). “Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Interesting, Covering

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• I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

  Kerry Greenwood

  Two, Kitchen, Orbit

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• I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Ideas

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• The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Ignorant, Gaps, Human Nature

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• The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

  e. e. cummings

  Truth, Discussion, Instance

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• I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

  Julie James

  Mean, Subconscious, Heard

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.218, Penguin

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• Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking that there's always possibility that they could have missed something, somewhere... But in return, the excitement you experience when your theory's smack bang correct is twice as great!

  Gosho Aoyama

  Reality, Thinking, Bangs

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• His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.

  George Wilson

  Science, Years, Numbers

  George Wilson (1851). “The life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: including abstracts of his more important scientific papers, and a critical inquiry into the claims of all the alleged discoverers of the composition of water”, p.186

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• I need an endorphin boost.” “And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one?” “No, it will probably put me in an endorphin coma, and I’m more than happy to test the theory.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Giving, Barns, Needs

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Years, Analogies, World

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• I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

  Gayle Forman

  Giving, Pay, Equilibrium

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• I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Book, Theory Of Evolution, Dubious

  "Legalism and the Sins of the Church" by L. Roger Sockwell, Xulon Press, (p. 30, 2002.

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• Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

  Gayle Forman

  Life Is, Excuse, Intention

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• Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.

  Stephen Hawking

  Matter, Next, Hypothesis

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Steven Hawking, 1989.

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• Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Time, Space, Principles

  "Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan)". Book by Marshall McLuhan (p. 43), 1988.

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• The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

  Swami Abhedananda

  Science, Diversity, Doe

  Swami Abhedananda (2005). “Vedanta Philosophy”, p.34, 1st World Publishing

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• The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat.
  1. The energy of the universe is constant.
  2. The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

  Rudolf Clausius

  Science, Law, Two

  Rudolf Clausius (1867). “The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and to the Physical Properties of Bodies”, p.365

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• There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Mean, Thinking

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• The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that had never been observed before, and described the properties it should have. Later experiments proved that this particle really exists and has those properties.

  Irving Adler

  Science, Should Have, Groups

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• I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Powerful, Men, Self

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