Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space
When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn. '
The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
Power floats like money, like language, like theory.
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.
In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk. . . A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.
I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject.
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.
I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.
I mean, I'm the tag of the [ Big Bang Theory ] show! That was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.
There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.
I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.