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"Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions." »Louis Pasteur
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"The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology." »Mark Ridley, 1983
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"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." »Sir William Bragg
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"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 Noel Adams
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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
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"I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness." »Brenda Ueland
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"A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory." »Albert Einstein
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"Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste." »William A. Smith
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." »Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice In practice, there is." »Chuck Reid
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is." »Chuck Reid
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have." »Jewel
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"There is nothing more practical than a good theory." »Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1
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"It is the theory that decides what we can observe." »Albert Einstein
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"A theory must be tempered with reality." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." »Steven Wright
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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." »Friedrich Engels
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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." »Niels Henrik David Bohr
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"Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant." »Kent "Sparky" Gregory
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"It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it." »Kedar Joshi
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"The ultimate most holy form of theory is action." »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained." »Arthur Cayley
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""What if in REALITY the only great thing in [us] was just the theory of maybe loving each other"" »Sguichardo
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"A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant." »Manfred Eigen
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"The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize." »Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now." »Larry Wright
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"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself." »G. Stanley Hall
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