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Theory Quotes
"Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."
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"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."
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"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."
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"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
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"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."
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"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
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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."
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"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron."
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"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
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"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory."
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"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
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"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
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"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
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"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."
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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
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"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
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"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."
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"Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more."
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"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
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"So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested."
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"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
14
"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
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"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
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"On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined."
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"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."
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"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
11
"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
10
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
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"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."
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