The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.
It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
The running joke on set [of the Westworlds] was that everyone at some point thinks that they're Anthony Hopkins. Like, "Guys, I think I'm Dr. Ford. I'm Anthony Hopkins. That's the twist. " We love all of the theories. Part of the fun of that show is figuring it out.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
The economists will have to revise their theories of value.
There are two theories. There's one theory that Barack Obama wants to destroy the country and create a socialistic country. There is that theory, and I've read a lot. This isn't necessarily my theory. I personally think they're incompetent.
Even theories must have foundations.
Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it is the substitutionary understanding that God - Jesus took our payment and you can't understand.
Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.
I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.
Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.
The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance. ' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over. In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to design for more than elegance.
Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has in these other areas. We, therefore, need to experiment in this area and, like scientists who work in other areas, develop and test theories in order to gain greater understanding
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.