Quotes
Quotes about Theory
Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,
Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.
It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
The smoke theory of electronics: Smoke makes electronic circuits
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
A theory is better than its explanation.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
You can read all the manuals on prayer and listen to other people pray, but until you begin to pray yourself you will never understand prayer. It's like riding a bicycle or swimming: You learn by doing. .. Luis Palau March 14, 2001 Most evangelicals believe that if a passage of the Bible seems unclear in its meaning, it should be interpreted in the light of Scripture "as a whole". But what does "Scripture as a whole" mean? In practice, if not theory, it means the working systematic theology of the interpreter, or of his own theological tradition. An evangelical... would not hold to that tradition unless he believed that it did represent the wholeness of the biblical witness. Nevertheless, if this state of affairs has been correctly described, he is now in a serious difficulty. For if the Bible must always accord with a theology that has already been accepted, how can the truth of a biblical passage ever confront him afresh with an unfavorable judgment?
Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373 Although it is indisputable that our Lord founded a church, it is an unproved assumption that the church is an aggregation of visible and organized societies. The theory upon which the public worship of the primitive churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that, in every act of public worship, every element of the community was present.
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.âPierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never."
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society . . .
