The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
Nancy Pearcey
LifeChangeBlindLearnMoreTheory
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
PhilosophyTheoryActivity
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx
CommunismUpTheoryPropertyMay
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.
Douglas Sirk
WorldPictureNowTheoryDifferent
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking
IdeasOldTheoryQuantumHoles
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
Brian Greene
CakeWillRightOutTheoryThick
I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
Flea
TheoryPianoPlayingStartedChord
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Arthur Eddington
HopeLawYouNothingDeepestTheory
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. Howe
PersonMorePhotographTheoryLike
I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.
Ashoke Sen
HopeBestFindingMatterTheoryUs
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
Preston Sturges
ArchitectureLiteratureOutTheory
String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
GoodGravityMoreTheoryThanCould
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Thomas Malthus
AttentionImproveLittleTheoryOwn
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Richard Ford
HeartTheorySomethingSenseMost
The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
Martin Fleischmann
ProblemTheoryQuantumStillField
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
Leonard Susskind
SpecialSeeTheoryMotionDifferent
There was one week where I got mistaken for Hasan Minhaj, who is on 'The Daily Show;' Kunal Nayyar, who's on 'Big Bang Theory;' and Karan Soni of 'Ghostbusters.' This was one week.
Kumail Nanjiani
DailyWeekBig BangTheoryBigShow
I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
James Hetfield
StudyNoiseTheoryMakeWanted
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
LoveReligionMoreTheoryYourLess
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Ernst Mayr
ChangeSmallTheoryFounderClaim
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
Ellen G. White
WillTheoryMayMassesAppetiteAny
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
Curtis Sittenfeld
MoreQuestionUpTheoryThanMuch
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel
MistakesTheoryThingsOriginalOnly
I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
Wesley Snipes
FaithFairRightTheoryWouldTried
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