Top 27 Progress Theory Quotes
#1. For every theory there has to be counterevidence
otherwise science wouldn't progress.
Haruki Murakami
#2. Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.
G.K. Chesterton
#3. We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.
Nathan Seiberg
#4. I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
Brian Greene
#5. It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No admittance except on business', and particularly to warn the doorkeeper to keep out prying philosophers.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
#6. The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Robert Barany
#7. Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
Guy Debord
#8. It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.
Stephen Hawking
#9. The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.
John Polkinghorne
#10. What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.
Katherine Paterson
#11. The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
Swami Vivekananda
#12. Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
Norman O. Brown
#13. History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
George W. Bush
#14. Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.
Lisa Randall
#15. In goodreads it's hard to find my progress in some stuff like quotes new and it needs a lot of work. But in twitter you can find everything - is it just a theory or a true. You decide!
Deyth Banger
#16. A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.
William John Macquorn Rankine
#17. Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.
Nate Silver
#18. Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.
Gordon Neufeld
#19. The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#20. Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
Brian Greene
#21. The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
Herbert Hoover
#23. No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.
Samuel Reshevsky
#25. The matter ended in my giving up my room. I had a strange reluctance to making the offer. which surprised myself. Was it a boding of evil to come? I cannot say. We are strangely and wonderfully made. It may have been. ("Horror: A True Tale")
John Berwick Harwood
#27. The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival.
Bertrand Russell
