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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.

Quotes by Wilhelm Ostwald

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Quotes by Wilhelm Reich

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Quotes by Wilhelm Wien

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.

Quotes by Wesley Snipes

It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by repeating such series of experiments, we can arrive at objective statements concerning these distributions.

Quotes by Werner Heisenberg

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Walt Whitman

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

Quotes by W. Edwards Deming

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Quotes by Vladimir Lenin

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Virginia Woolf

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Quotes by Unknown

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Quotes by Tommy Lasorda

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Quotes by Thomas Malthus

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Quotes by Thomas Kuhn

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

Quotes by Teresa de Lauretis

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

Quotes by Tamara Taylor

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Quotes by Talcott Parsons

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Quotes by Talcott Parsons

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

Quotes by Talcott Parsons

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.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in weak interaction processes.

Quotes by Steven Weinberg

Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

Quotes by Steve Hanke

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.

Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.

Quotes by Sheldon Lee Glashow

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Quotes by Ruth Hubbard

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.

Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

Quotes by Roger Penrose

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Quotes by Robin Ince

Growth theory did not begin with my articles of 1956 and 1957, and it certainly did not end there. Maybe it began with 'The Wealth of Nations'; and probably even Adam Smith had predecessors.

Quotes by Robert Solow

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Quotes by Reinhard Selten

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

Quotes by Ray Comfort

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Quotes by Preston Sturges

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Quotes by Peter R. Grant

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

Quotes by Paul Watzlawick

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Quotes by Paul Samuelson

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Quotes by Paul Davies

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

Quotes by Paul Davies

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

Quotes by Park Chan-wook

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Quotes by Olga Kurylenko

Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.

Quotes by Niels Bohr

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

Quotes by Natasha Lyonne

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Quotes by Morris Kline

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

Quotes by Morris Raphael Cohen

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

Quotes by Michael Azerrad

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Quotes by Max von Laue

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Quotes by Mason Cooley

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.

Quotes by Mary Daly

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Quotes by Mary Douglas

I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.

Quotes by Martin Shkreli

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.

Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

Quotes by Martin Fleischmann

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

Quotes by Marion Cotillard

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Quotes by Manfred Eigen

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

Quotes by Manfred Eigen

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

Quotes by Linda M. Godwin

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

Quotes by Lee Smolin

I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works.

Quotes by Kimberly Bryant

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Quotes by Kenneth R. Miller

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Quotes by Kenneth R. Miller

I don't shop much, but my go-to brands are Topman, John Varvatos, AllSaints, Marc Jacobs, and Theory. Of course I like Nike; that's a given.

Quotes by Kendrick Sampson

This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.

Quotes by Kenichi Fukui

In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.

Quotes by Kehinde Wiley

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

Quotes by Kate Grenville

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

Quotes by John Ambrose Fleming

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

Quotes by John Ambrose Fleming

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

Quotes by Jim Crace

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

Quotes by Jewel

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Quotes by Jefferson Davis

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

Quotes by James Tobin

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

Quotes by James Hetfield

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.

Quotes by James Gleick

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Quotes by James Cash Penney

I don't agree with the theory that removing grass and pace from the pitch nullifies Mitchell Johnson.

Quotes by James Anderson

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

Quotes by Ira Glass

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

Quotes by Imre Lakatos

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

Quotes by Imre Lakatos

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Quotes by Imre Lakatos

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Quotes by Herbert A. Simon

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Quotes by Henry Charles Carey

In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

Quotes by Harry Frankfurt

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Quotes by Harold S. Geneen

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

Quotes by Hans Jonas

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Quotes by Gerrit Smith

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.

Quotes by Gerard Debreu

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Quotes by Gerard Debreu

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

Quotes by Gerald Clarke

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

Quotes by George Stigler

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Quotes by George Hickenlooper

I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.

Quotes by George Gamow

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.

Quotes by Geoffrey West

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Quotes by Frederick Pollock

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Quotes by Franz Kafka

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

Quotes by Flea

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.

Quotes by Erwin Schrodinger

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.

Quotes by Ernst Mayr

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