T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.”
“Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.”
Source: Anne
“Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.”
Source: On Education
“Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.”
“Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete”
Source: Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective
“Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.”
“Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”
“Theories are there. Heroes are here”
“Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.”
Source: The Female Imagination
“Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.”
“Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns.”
“Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.”
“Theories:
*During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, are the oysters packed in ice or tinned, and shipped to Paris?
*During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, do the serving staff shuck shells?
Or
*During the off-months for the visitors, which are the on-months for the oysters, are the restaurant, and the oysters, abandoned, and the staff laid off?”
Source: Vertigo
“Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.”
“Theories have nothing to do with life.”
“Theories might inspire you, but experiments will advance you.”
“Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]”
Source: Non-logical conduct
“Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.”
“Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.”
“Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.”
“Theories pass. The frog remains.”
“Theories, philosophies, ideologies, all later, first realization.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.”
Source: Illness as metaphor
“Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.”
“Theories then are dangerous things.”
Source: Collected essays
“Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.”
Source: Economic Analysis
“Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.”
Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?
“Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.”
Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?
“Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.”
“Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.”
Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.”
“Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.”
Source: Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice
“Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.”
“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.”
“Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.”
“Theory can blind observation.”
Source: In a Different Voice
“Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.”
“Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.”
“Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.”
“Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use!”
Source: Hack Music Theory, Part 1: Learn Scales & Chords in 30 minutes
“Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.”
“Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.”
Source: Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves
“Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.”
“Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.”
“Theory is needed to tell you where to look.”
“Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.”
Source: Introduction to the Theory of Computation
“Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.”