#theory

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. ↗

— Asa Gray

#cause #confesses #difficulties #everything #find

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#always #i #i always #rebelled #respond

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#book #buy #cartoon #color #comes

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. ↗

— Saul Kripke

#defect #i #i think #nice #only

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#completely #disapproval #get #happily #hurdles

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. ↗

— Chaim Weizmann

#convinced #day #einstein #every #every day

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#course #evolution #human #human mind #mind

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

#basic #commitments #deeper #derived #drops

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. ↗

— Amar Bose

#body #bring #could #disciplines #exceeded

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#arranged #awe #deep #edge #end