Top 135 Theories Quotes

Apparently, my father was funny. I didn’t really know him, but people have theories that the gag-smith gene trickles down through the blood amongst other terrible traits like a big nose and a temper.

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

You learn that the interest is in what you don’t yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don’t know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

As an NBA fan, there is nothing more irritating than when the league’s credibility is challenged by cockamamy conspiracy theories.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.

My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

To put it bluntly, there isn’t one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore’s success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

When I first read ‘The River,’ I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it’s much simpler: It’s about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what’s relevant to their lives.

One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories – much of the debugging has to be done by others.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around Mrs. Thatcher’s memory that was rooted in theories about economics. They did this because economics is the only language that wonks understand.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It’s wrong.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite’s entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward mobility, and the promise that ‘merit’ correlates with talents and deserts.

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I’m sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn’t have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you’re in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.

Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that’s a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

We’ve heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids and their problems can be real binding glue. It keeps you out of the range of too much ego.

Good intentions and grand theories do not make a good programme. Programmes work best when they’re based on a detailed und­er­standing of the problem being solved and how they are implemented on the ground.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you’ve got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor’s prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don’t all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can’t be taught. All the great actors can’t talk about what they do, and they don’t want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

My dad, bless him, he was never into Marvel before, but now he’s obsessed with it. When I got the job, he started watching his way through the films, and he’s got all these different YouTubers that he now watches for theories, and he tries to get spoilers out of me.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

As a historian, I’m sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they’re really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick.

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.