392 Quotes About Theory

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

Some days, theory is all that we have,” I say. “It’s better than having nothing at all.”, FADE by Kailin Gow

Scientific knowledge without solid theory is like a tree with shallow roots that succumbs to the storms it faces. Without practical application, however, it is like a dry tree that denies its shade on days of scorching sun.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.