Quotes
Quotes about Theory
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.
The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory...
Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.
Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
It is the theory that decides what can be observed.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence from matter.
It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that "one man is as good as another;" a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist -Rajneesh- (Love's Light is the only reality.. says the unified field theory of physics.. God is the only Doer).
A theory must be tempered with reality.
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms.
No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems very unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
