If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

Nikola Tesla

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

Albert Einstein

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Chaim Weizmann

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

Jefferson Davis

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

Wilhelm Reich

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Niels Bohr

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.

Edgar Allan Poe

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

Stephen Hawking

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Louis Pasteur

Why, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little real novelty?

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Charles Darwin

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Henry Huxley

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein

The theory is, you're there to save a life.

Michael Chitwood

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Henry Louis Mencken

The whole theory of the new law is to see how to improve people's ability to repay creditors. There's got to be a balance between relieving debt and allowing creditors to collect.

Dick Martin

Life is so unlike theory.

Anthony Trollope

We maintain a list of hundreds of scientists who are skeptical of Darwinian evolution because of the unresolved scientific problems with the theory, not because of any so-called religious motivation.

Bruce Chapman

PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things ? as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops ? don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

Malcolm Gladwell

First, dot-coms turned into dot-bombs, and second, regulators didn't make it easy, ... In theory, there was no reason Utility.com could not have been wildly successful, but states adopted rules that protect the incumbent utilities which means new companies have no room in which to operate.

John Egan

In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Americans love a conspiracy theory. It also tapped into people's disillusionment with the Catholic Church following the sexual abuse scandals.

Lynn Garrett

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.

Richard Feynman

The mathematical theory of random polynomials and random matrices has already found many applications in physics. Indeed the Hamiltonian of a complex or chaotic system can often be viewed as such a matrix.

Jean Dalibard

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Benedict Spinoza

I was showing them stuff about music chords and theory. Then we'd teach them how to play lead, and do some Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers numbers by ear.

Laura Veirs

The ruling in Dover banning intelligent design clearly has no relevance for Ohio. Ohio is not teaching intelligent design, making this a completely different issue. That was merely a ploy for Darwinists to keep students from learning about the evidence challenging Darwin's theory.

Casey Luskin

The theory of the flat tax is a lot more appealing then the reality. We would have serious concerns that a flat tax imposed strictly on the District would be neither fair nor progressive. However, we've worked closely and well with Sen. Brownback in the past and hope to do so in the future.

Vincent Morris

The theory is it's more of a 'me' generation, while the World War II generation didn't have the 'what's in it for me' mentality. Or maybe it's just unawareness because they have lived in their own world for so long and don't see the needs that are out there.

Cynthia Benson

He's into music theory. Actually, he's composing stuff that's really nice, but he doesn't like it. But he's a really humble kid and even if he thinks it's really good, you won't hear him shooting his mouth off about it.

Joe Marquand

All our calculations were based on the theory that, if Madrid made it through to the final round, then we might have a tough time winning but that, if it was Paris v London, then we had a really excellent chance.

Keith Mills

We were doing it (adding intelligent design to the curriculum) for the students to give them an alternative scientific theory to go along with their biology class, ... We thought we were doing something good for them.

William Buckingham

None of it felt that original to me in theory. We had to do some things differently if we were going to carve our own space.

Peter Berg

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

Kurt Lewin

It seemed like law was the way to go. I love the theory, but not the practice itself.

Dawn Currier

If people with mental illness can't access the services, it doesn't matter how good those services are. It simply means that we're good in theory only and not in a practical, meaningful way.

Dave Almeida

At times we play defense with our offense. I subscribe to that Lou Holtz football theory a little bit. If I've got the ball, the other team can't score.

Tim Walker

They went in a little down spell in 2000. So if history goes back to 2000, this is a scenario that does make sense. But the theory that is jumping on a brand new bandwagon, it's just not there.

Billy Packer

In a year of record high gas prices, we grew in-store sales. This goes to prove the theory that customers would be turned off by high gas prices and not come into the convenience store is not true.

Greg Parker

It's an interesting theory, ... But you can put British actors in silly clothes and not look ridiculous. Now if the Brits were to make a western, it would fall apart.

Ray Stevenson

Low turnout is a real problem if you look at it in terms of democratic theory. But low turnout has its advantages for certain candidates if it's a low-profile race and you have a crowd larger than somebody else's crowd.

Susan Roberts

He doesn't get lost in theory. He's action oriented. He pulls a problem apart piece by piece and is bold with his decisions. And when you're in trouble, the worst path is indecision.

Anne M. Mulcahy

The second time around, we will be less theory and more practice, focusing a bit more on the actual hands-on writing experience.

Mimi Belt

His work is important and a major contribution to the world of economics and to theory.

Menachem Begin

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Richard Dawkins

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

S. Parkes Cadman

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Wernher von Braun

There's no smoking gun or leading theory coming out about what might have triggered this.

Guy Hohenhaus

The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have no more real bearing on the matter than those employed in genealogical tables have in explaining the laws of procreation.

James Joseph Sylvester

Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory.

Bernard Ingham

It's the old armchair quarterback theory. People always think they're a better coach or the better owner. Fantasy football is tailor-made to live out that armchair quarterback life. You get to pick the players. It's ideal.

Greg Ambrosius

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Camille Paglia

[That the band chose Harrisburg, better known for the Pennsylvania Chili Cookoff than a raucous hotbed of music, is an example of its theory of controlled success. Rather than trying to be a] an itty-bitty fish in a big pond like New York, ... The band built up a fan-base in Harrisburg and then began playing larger surrounding cities to get exposure.

Brett Scallions

It's hard to reconcile the scientific principles of freedom of exploration, testing hypotheses and evaluating evidence with the tyrannical rhetoric coming from some scientific elites who want to squelch the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolutionary theory.

David Stevens

Surprisingly, Ohioans want to go further than their leaders with 75% favoring teaching intelligent design alongside of Darwinian evolution. Even after all the attacks on intelligent design by the dogmatic Darwin-only lobby, the public clearly wants to know more about the theory and make up their own minds.

Robert Crowther

The Attorney General is pleased that the court rejected the defendants' claim that the legal theory of misdemeanor manslaughter was somehow flawed.

Michael Healey

People like to give under the theory that no matter what happens, he's still chairman of the Commerce Committee.

J. Steven Hart

We permit them in certain circumstances. The theory (behind the ordinance) is not their use, but abuse. It's an issue of aesthetics.

Ralph Maccarone

Could be based on a legally insufficient theory of law.

Nancy Becker

[Fayetteville coach Jim Schmidt's theory of recognizing paid off with a win. After the game Schmidt said,] We needed to adjust to what they gave us and attack the goal strong. On the last goal, I told the girls don't give up until the zero. ... we are getting better as a team in getting over defense to give us more opportunities.

Mark Ward

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

Women need to know why you do certain things on the field and the theory behind it. Not just that you are suppose to do them.

Barry Carter

The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's curriculum.

George F. Will

Jacques' theory about the injured guys is even when they're healthy, they're not ready, ... They've got to get back up to speed, and this is really his first practice.

Doug Weight

You can talk theory and situation all you want. But what these kids need is to get more game-speed experience.

Tony Ernesto

In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Yogi Berra

In theory, it's great. But I'm concerned that repeatedly when we look around the most troubled school districts, there is not a lot of choice being given to kids. The school districts drag their feet.

Jeanne Allen

We believe evolution should be taught as a scientific theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can't be questioned.

Casey Luskin

The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cognitive reserve, maybe a larger number of brain cells or more efficient brain systems or networks. These people with higher education have more redundancy or reserve so they can cope if part of the brain is destroyed.

Dr Nikolaos Scarmeas

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.

Muslih uddin Sadi

In theory, we should finish third in the group.

David Murray

I am aghast and pained by these developments. I am a believer in Karma theory. This must be the result of the Karma of my previous birth.

Deve Gowda

We practiced lots and lots of tasks, we were prepared to do a lot things that we'd never done before, and that theory was sort of tested on this, and that's sort of the whole idea of going into space. You don't really know what your challenges are going to be ahead of time, so you practice everything you can think of.

Stephen Robinson

We bring together theory and application at the New Center.

Alison Brown

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Antonin Artaud

I don't think that we are putting any more weight on this particular theory than we have on any others.

Scott Atkinson

The Akaka bill would be devastating to Hawaii, but it is also dangerous for the rest of America. That's because the bill breaks new legal ground with a theory of the Constitution that would speed up the balkanization of our nation.

Ken Conklin

The theory behind the paper is that actual chewing stimulates a neuronal and hormonal reflex that helps to awaken the gut. Certainly, there's a great deal of appeal to that theory.

Dr. Michael Harris

Management theory says to improve a process you have to first improve its variability. Well, we've developed a way to put a price tag on the expected costs of failing to improve variability, for failing to improve a process.

Alfred Guiffrida

In theory, in the private sector, with the L-code system, I know the end dollar amount that I can be reimbursed for a patient, so the less I see that patient in terms of clinical hours, the more profit is generated. That's not good in a rehab world.

Joseph Miller

[Barring homosexuals from ordination] doesn't break any new ground or propose a new policy, ... That's the policy that's been in effect, in theory. It's just been ignored in many areas, particularly North America.

Joseph Fessio

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Derek Bailey

In theory, one might say judge each case on its individual merits, but some doubt whether it would be done in a proper way, ... There isn't going to be an easy solution. I think if you have a policy statement that homosexuals ought not to be studying for the priesthood at least it gives seminaries a way to act.

James Hitchcock

The way I see it, there are three types of studies in science: one that moves a theory along, one that closes it and another that opens a new door altogether. This one opens a new chapter, introducing an entirely new molecular candidate for the study of anxiety, and we're going to be hearing a lot about it in the next 10 years.

Thomas Insel

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

This is a revolutionary way to learn because you're not just reading, you're hearing people talk to you. It's theoretical poker reinforced by practical play. We teach a theory and go in and talk about strategy. You learn by example. That's the uniqueness or advantage we provide.

David Power

Dust bunny theory .

Judy Miller

For having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.

Robert Aumann

The problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the black hole -- protons, electrons, stars, planets, whatever -- and it would make no difference. There must be billions of ways to make a black hole, yet with the classical model the final state of the system is always the same.

Samir Mathur

We used to think: Give people time and they will integrate. It's a nice theory, but it didn't work.

Marco Pastors

So the theory asks, how can shareholders ascertain what the firm's real prospects are when they have less information, ... It's a pervasive aspect of modern economies.

Joseph Stiglitz

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.

George B. Leonard

We didn't want to go in with a big bang theory and replace all the applications.

Bob Berckman

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.

H. L. Mencken

I think that he is a good manager who brought to office a whole different theory on how to run government, which is why he was elected in the first place.

Ron Kaufman

Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: 'And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay.

Enrico Fermi

If we learned about people's habits, attitudes and behaviors in completely different categories, we felt that, in theory, we could start to predict how people would behave in our own categories.

Phil Barden

Our theory was that if we could somehow stimulate the digestive system to 'wake up' a little bit sooner, we could get them out of the hospital a little bit sooner.

Jim Mccormick

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creationism is not biology and has no place in a biology class. What makes it wrong is not the theory of creationism, but the teaching of creationism as part of a science class.

Kent Willis

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

John Fahey

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.

Martin H. Fischer

Our theory with that is ... somebody got a good deal, good for them. That'll keep them coming back. That's the only way we can look at it.

Karan Mulkey

At the end of the day my theory is that not every mobile customer will become a 3G customer.

Allen Lew

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Tom Seaver

The theory and practice of gamesmanship orThe art of winning games without actually cheating.

Stephen Potter

I think evolutionary theory is compatible with faith.

Jeffrey Schloss

I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work - on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy.

Jef Raskin

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Sir William Bragg

Advances in probability theory, computer science, the concept of information, molecular biology and the philosophy of science.

William Dembski

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

Hunter S. Thompson

The theory behind a [debtor-in-possession] loan is that it is first among equals in the bankruptcy process.

James Harris

From our point of view, Intelligent Design is not a legal strategy, it's a scientific theory. It's a robust theory and we're getting more and more interest in it all the time.

Robert Crowther

I think your theory is wonderful and possibly some of the majority members will be willing to support it.

Arkansas Times

I think they should teach us that technically it's a theory. Then, teach us it's a theory, not that it's a fact.

Josh Moore

There are students who really look forward to being able to see the blending of reality and theory ... meaning, making whatever you read in the textbook plain by giving everyday illustrations that you can relate to.

Ivory Phillips

This alleged conspiracy took place over a seven-month period and I can't tell from reading the indictment what she (Adams) allegedly did. I don't even know if she is being charged as a principal or on an accountability theory.

Terry Green

Evolution isn't just a story or a theory on the corner of science, evolution is the fundamental idea in biology.

Warren Allmon

If you're doing a total paradigm shift and completely changing the investment mandate of the fund, then at least in theory, the positions are not going to make sense.

Meredith Jones

That's all good theory and rhetoric but this real-life circumstance here, it's green, it's thick and good to have and I'm not shifting.

Mark Latham

The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N. in theory is supposed to be but can't.

Richard Holbrooke

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.

James F. Cooper

There does not appear to be much evidence to support that (serial killer) conclusion at this point. Perhaps one or two cases, you know, could have some aspects of a serial killer at work to them. But again, precious little evidence to support that overall theory.

John Les

Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.

Alan Leshner

In theory, everyone is vulnerable, ... We can't say why some people will go on to develop the disorder and some won't. We just don't know enough about the disorder yet.

Andrew Harper

It's great not only talking about community service in theory but actually doing it.

Adam Gardner

Man is a mixture of good and evil, and he can never be perfected in this life. The notion of his natural goodness is a delusive theory which will blow up any social order that is predicated upon it.

Richard Weaver

Miranda is in theory a very simple concept that has actually become pretty complicated, ... The fallback should be, you should have a form that's been legally adopted through the prosecuting authority.

Joseph Estey

There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass. The theory that new technology results in error seems to be borne out early in the process.

Doug Chapin

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'.

Gilbert Ryle

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels

Would you agree that Darwin's theory is not the absolute truth?

Robert Muise

It's a theoretical question (but) the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation broke IOC ( International Olympic Committee ) rules ... They could in theory be disqualified.

Stefan Lindeberg

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

Alan Leshner

If future blood tests indicate the cells are indeed churning out the enzyme, this entire endeavor will have moved from theory into the pages of medical firsts.

Anthony Payne

My theory is if they can't find a job, the likelihood of them returning to the criminal arena is greater. And the one who suffers is John Q. Public.

Wilbur Aldridge

"The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew Abood.

Andrew Abood

I don't want to be the test case for that theory.

Andrew Potter

Well basically, [evolution] is a scientific theory. It plays a very major role in biological research. Since it is where science is, it is what should be taught in public schools.

Charles Lane

For far too long, people suffering from this disorder have had to deal with the theory that this is all societal, that somehow they choose to have anorexia, or parents have had to deal with the blame placed on them because somehow their parenting style caused this. Now, they know that they really need to go against the tide of their biology to overcome this.

Cynthia M. Bulik

I am not levying a charge, it's the truth. Ask anybody… it's not a conspiracy theory. It's fact-based.

Scott Padgett

That's our theory. We've asked the Coast Guard to verify it.

Bob Dickinson

But the theory is also, once the shooting starts, negotiations stop. Then it's self-preservation.

Michael Chitwood

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken

My guess would be, I don't think anything will happen just because of a 68-year-old man. What I read into it is that a 68-year-old has just proved that what's been done [to the course] over the years is not over the top. I never agreed with that theory, and I think we're seeing that.

Tom Fazio

Coincidences are what are left over after you've applied a bad theory.

Percy Williams Bridgeman

I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people who weren't considered that smart in school because they didn't have good notation skills-you know, moving little symbols around.

Howard Gardner

Home is still the dominant place to print, yet the anaemic number of prints supports IDC's theory that end users have more reliable expectations regarding mobile imaging than vendors themselves.

Chris Chute

A lot of people didn't make it because they didn't understand germ theory back then.

Marcia Leiter

In theory, meeting those standards should help you run the village more effectively. It would allow you to align total revenue with the true costs associated with providing services, including depreciation on buildings, streets, and curb and gutters.

Don Rahn

In performance terms, I have always gone well here, ... However, looking at the current situation, both in theory and in practice, we do not have a car capable of delivering a win. Nevertheless, I will face the weekend in a positive frame of mind, as you never know what might happen.

Rubens Barrichello

No body, no blood, no DNA evidence. Barbara Asher is here because of a theory.

Stephanie Page

The PT Cruiser continues to be an incredible hit with the public and proves our theory that the key to long-term sales in this marketplace is to have the most exciting and innovative vehicles in the market.

Theodor Cunningham

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.

Michael Behe

Major breakthrough and innovation in theory.

Li Changchun

This is an extreme legal theory, and our courts should not be filled with nonsense like this.

Derek Gaubatz

If your folks were Democrat or Republican you tend to vote that way. If your folks were green and red you tend to follow that tradition. My theory is that has a tendency to follow through with what equipment you run.

Alan Anderson

I guess that's the 'Don't build it, they'll come,' theory, which goes very counter to what most people think.

John Brabender

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Jack Nicklaus

He has a good method. 30 minutes of theory and a half-hour of playing the songs.

Chip Brown

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Mark Russell

Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.

Fred Von Lohmann

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Alexander Calder

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Leonard Bacon

My theory is God is not going to let me die that way. He's made it perfectly clear to me he's got bigger plans for me and that's not going to be the way he chooses to take me.

Shayna Richardson

Are unequivocal in their support of evolutionary theory.

Michael Behe

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.

Chuck Reid

The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier.

Michael Appel

Anyone can be on their best behavior for an hour. Theory is, the more time you spend with someone the better the opportunity that you'll catch them saying something alarming.

Rich Thompson

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Joey Santiago

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.

Joseph Fiennes

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.

Judith Hayes

On the surface, the notion that people should consider their alternatives is not a bad theory, ... the way the system is structured suggests that will not happen.

Karen Gross

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Joan Smith

The HUDF has provided very high-quality information. It is the first data we could use to test this theory, since it allowed us to study about 5,000 distant galaxies over a period of four months.

Seth Cohen

One will not deny me, I trust, all the theory of oxidation and combustion, the analysis and decomposition of air by metals and combustible bodies, the theory of acidification, more precise knowledge on the nature of a great numbers of acids, notably.

Antoine Lavoisier

Our theory was get Eck in the game. You knew the game was over.

Rickey Henderson

To suddenly appear in the Cambrian must remain inexplicable, ... Clearly, Darwin's theory of life does not fit the fossil evidence for the origin of the major groups of animals.

Jonathan Wells

In science, there has never been a more well-founded theory than evolutionary theory. It's as good as science gets.

Gregory Forbes

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

Ruth Hubbard

The theory is based on the argument that any time one's context of time is limited, they will show these positive effects.

Derek Isaacowitz

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

Gerald Clarke

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

Robert Aumann

I think it's being done much more systematically than it was done previously, ... In theory, they were doing it years ago. But the statewide tests have forced schools to do it much more systematically. And it's given a clearer direction of where schools should go.

Mark Davison

We are doing a large enough area that, in theory, we should be able to support everything.

Patsy Smith

Our kids will leave this school understanding evolutionary theory and creation theory and being able to work with both right through the science syllabus.

Michael Drake

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

Jimmy Swaggart

His studies of macroeconomic and asset market behavior are notable for their methodological innovations, combining economic theory and frontier econometric methods.

Robert Porter

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Mao Tse tung

It's not a matter of theory, we now have enough evidence to suggest that either natural or human-caused disasters and crises definitely affect the traveling public.

Walter Jamieson

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Paul A. Samuelson