#theory

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#like #more #person #photograph #than

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#community #community college #decided #did #direct

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#according #almost #common #had #mankind

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#either #itself #must #nobler #precede

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#group #i #like #long #musicians

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#direct #direct experience #eating #experience #genuine

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#atom #basis #contains #each #electron

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#dear friend #ever #friend #golden #gray