Quotes about theory, page 4
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
quote by Virginia Woolf
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
quote by Richard Dawkins
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To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
quote by Francis Parker Yockey
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God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
quote by William Bragg
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
quote by Andre Gide
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
quote by Catharine MacKinnon
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Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
quote by Hedy Lamarr
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In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.
quote by Roger Penrose
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
quote by Omar Sharif
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
quote by Karl Popper
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