Theory Quotes

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural selection.

When we descend to details we can prove that no one species has changed; nor can we prove that the supposed changes are beneficial, which is the groundwork of the theory.

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.