Theory Quotes
Where reasoning meets belief.
These quotes treat theory as a way of making sense of uncertainty, from faith in a fair trial to physicists tracing statistical patterns across many experiments. Readers interested in applied ideas may also like the Economic collection.
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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.
About Quotes
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
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.
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...
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
Action Quotes
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Economic Quotes
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Life Quotes
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.
