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Theory Quotes
Where reasoning meets belief.
These quotes treat theory as a way of making sense of uncertainty, from faith in a fair trial to physicists tracing statistical patterns across many experiments. Readers interested in applied ideas may also like the Economic collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
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On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.
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One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
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A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
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I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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