Theory X And Theory Y Quotes

#1. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

Judith Butler

#2. Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

Murray Gell-Mann

#3. If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

H.L. Mencken

#4. I have a new theory about algebra," I said. "In going to learn it by osmosis.

Robin McKinley

#5. The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

William Stanley Jevons

#6. In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.

Parker Young

#7. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

#8. Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Ernst Mayr

#9. Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

James McAvoy

#10. ... The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

Brian Greene

#11. Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

Carl Jung

#12. She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

Maureen Johnson

#13. I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#14. The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Eric Kandel

#15. I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Fred Hoyle

#16. You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#17. I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

Tom Peters

#18. Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

Miranda July

#19. This puzzling discrepancy prompted the development of the controversial cosmological theory known as the Strong Misanthropic Principle, which asserts that the universe exists in order to screw with us.

Robert Kroese

#20. The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.

Edward Witten

#21. If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

Mao Zedong

#22. I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

Meg Donohue

#23. There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

Marisha Pessl

#24. Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

#25. The universe and the observer exist as a pair. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of the universe that ignores consciousness.

Andrei Linde

#26. Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

Paul Samuelson

#27. The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.

Norman L. Biggs

#28. There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Kenneth R. Miller

#29. The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

Eric Maskin

#30. His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

Shannon A. Thompson

#31. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

H.L. Mencken

#32. Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Wyndham Lewis