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Theory Quotes

Life is so unlike theory.

Anthony Trollope

Life Theory Unlike

No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

Man Changes Always Theory Been He

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

Win Try Over Theory Pieces Smear

I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.

Susumu Tonegawa

Science Year Biology Senior Theory

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

Sebastian Junger

Life Insult Theory Act Something

Here's my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call it that? Because it's got all those A's lined up I guess. This is gobbledygook for 'If the United States fights somebody, we're going to be huge. They're going to be small.'

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Small Why Up Theory Here Going

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

Richard Flanagan

Die Late Race Out Theory Accepted

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Martin H. Fischer

Science Purpose Possible Theory Very

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Kenneth L. Pike

Today Yesterday More Theory Accepted

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

End You Theory Things Take Used

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

Nature Learning I Am Guitar Theory

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.

Dedication Economics Become Theory

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

Erwin Schrodinger

Now Theory Successful Tests Quantum

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Ellsworth Huntington

Now Theory Mankind Common Origin

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

Organization Church Earth Theory Our

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

Life Style Stylish You More Theory

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

Wilhelm Ostwald

First Theory Quarter Composition

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

Teresa de Lauretis

World Theory Changing Course State

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Theory Funeral Advances

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

Time Human Endeavor Theory Percent

I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.

Man Thought Humanity Always Theory

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Women Men Gossip Theory Low Idea

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

Keegan-Michael Key

Culture Black You Blood Theory Drop

The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Surprise More Theory Things Quantum

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