Features Theory Quotes

#1. With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.

John Henry Holland

#2. I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

Brian Greene

#3. But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

Michel Hazanavicius

#4. There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.

Robert Osborne

#5. Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.

Samuel Goldwyn

#6. The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Trofim Lysenko

#7. The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.

Peter R. Grant

#8. The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in a context in which anything other than continuity seemed to be absurd according to the views held until then.

Erwin Schrodinger

#9. You don't have half such a hard time as I do," said Jo. "How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you're ready to fly out the window or cry?

Louisa May Alcott

#10. 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

#11. We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features.

E. H. Moore

#12. The wild hetman stood like a statue for a space, dimly grasping something of the cosmic tragedy of the fitful ephemera called mankind and the hooded shapes of darkness which prey upon it.

Robert E. Howard

#13. There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

Bryan Adams

#14. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

Ann Landers

#15. To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

Ha-Joon Chang

#16. So often it is words or pictures that first tell us what we long for.

Cornelia Funke

#17. I say, if it's love, the Lord won't mind. There's enough hate in the world.

Gordon Merrick

#18. I can feel the thunder underneath my feet

Melissa Etheridge

#19. I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory's journey and smile, enjoying the theory's remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.

Brian Greene

#20. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Napoleon Hill

#21. One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

Brian Greene