Quotes tagged ‘Theory’

(25 total)

“It is also image: its essence is withdrawn from and inaccessible to us.”

“So the whole world's wondering, did you actually grind your husband up and feed him to there tigers so there's no evidence? I'm gonna show you some stuff that will put that right in your head.”

— Joe Exotic , imdb.com

“I have this theory that a relationship is kind of like a rocket, and you're trying to get it into space. And all you need is enough fuel to get you out of Earth's atmosphere, and then it will keep going, no matter what you throw at it, in the, in the direction it was launched.”

— Deborah Copaken, John Carney, Joshua, Dev Patel, imdb.com

“Maybe we are dead and this is heaven.”

— Neil LaBute, Anthony Salter, Chase, Natalie Martinez, imdb.com

“To prove with a single equation that time had a beginning. Wouldn't that be nice, professor? The one simple elegant equation, to explain everything.”

— Anthony McCarten, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne, imdb.com

“The way I had it figured, Toruk's the baddest cat in the sky. Nothing attacks him. So why would he ever look up? That was just a theory.”

— James Cameron, Jake Sully, Sam Worthington, imdb.com

“Perhaps when you grew the mustache?”

— Sharon Horgan, Frances, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com

“To catch a con, you gotta hatch a con.”

— Eric Buchman, Patterson, Ashley Johnson, imdb.com

“Carrie: Well, I think maybe there's a cheating curve. That someone's definition of what constitutes cheating is in direct proportion to how much they themselves want to cheat. Miranda: That's moral relativism! Carrie: I prefer to think of it as quantum cheating.”

— Darren Star, Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com

“I think Angela might be gay. Could Oscar and Angela be having a gay affair? Maybe! Is that what this is about?”

— Greg Daniels, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, imdb.com

“Violence in reality is quite different from theory.”

— Oliver Crawford, David Gerrold, Margaret Armen, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com

“I got my Ph.D. by taking a theory, testing it, and then proving my results. Now, proving my results means that I take those results and I turn them over to other scientists to see if they can replicate them, and if they can't, then my theory was wrong. See, that's science. A consensus of evidence th…”

— Breen Frazier, Dr. Tara Lewis, Aisha Tyler, imdb.com

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.”

— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org

“But evolution is only a theory! Which is true. I mean, it is only a theory, it’s good that they say that. I think, it gives you hope, doesn’t it?”

— Tim Minchin, brandongaille.com

“Little Johny asks his dad the difference between theory and reality. Dad says: Go ask your mother if she would sleep with anyone for a million dollars. Johny runs off and asks his mom and comes back. “She said yes!” Dad says: Now go ask your sister. Johny comes back and says “She said yes!” Dad tell…”

— pav1010, reddit.com

“Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.”

— Diego Rivera, goodreads.com

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.”

— Hippocrates, amazon.com

“It is disturbing to see that the current debate over evolution has become us-versus-them. 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 Hawk…”

— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com