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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole
Knowledge
Change
Expectation
Circumstances
Would
Perfect
Partial
Demand
Occurrence
Leave
Nor
Affecting
Probabilities
Probability
Acquaintance
Room
Certainty
Theory
Event
Founded
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken
God
Failure
Man
Long
Devil
Seems
He
Taken
Soon
Over
Children
Succeeds
Theory
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
Joel Edgerton
Work
Good
You
Internet
Say
Parrot
Bottom
Cage
Operate
Course
Line
Bloggers
Up
Article
Any
Just
Ends
Newspaper
Then
Theory
Publicity
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder
Government
Failure
Capitalism
Risks
Practice
Nothing
Reap
Consequences
Way
Possibility
Out
Stays
Someone
Something
Take
Individuals
Call
Accept
Greatest
Least
America
Going
Represents
Rewards
Used
Theory
Lets
Why
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy
Theory
Activity
Most climatologists agree that, at best, global warming is a theory about future climactic conditions and cannot be proven based upon the historic record.
Mike Pence
Future
Best
Record
About
Global
Most
Global Warming
Proven
Conditions
Historic
Cannot
Warming
Theory
Agree
Based
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.
Steven Pinker
Best
Mind
Fabric
Woven
Intuitive
Web
Mental
Facts
Like
Conceptual
Well
Narrative
Understands
Disconnected
Exist
Psychology
Might
Pages
Theory
Shown
Map
Cognitive
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
Tom Seaver
You
Consistency
Will
Aim
Worry
Strive
Statistics
About
End
Get
Dwell
Shortsighted
Theory
Baseball
Numbers
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
Vladimir Lenin
Without
Revolutionary
Movement
Cannot
Theory
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman
Single
Universe
Directed
Individual
Single Individual
Theory
Whole
It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by repeating such series of experiments, we can arrive at objective statements concerning these distributions.
Werner Heisenberg
Strict
Finally
Statements
We Cannot
Statistical
Objective
Rely
Observations
True
Concerning
Quantum
Causality
Arrive
Repeating
Times
Cannot
Experiments
Derive
Theory
Many
Series
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Unknown
Change
Science
Facts
Fit
Theory
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous Huxley
Work
Art
Man
Own
System
Re-Created
Well
Scientific
Scientific Theory
Metaphysical
His
Theory
Europe
Resembles
Neat
Image
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
Arthur Eddington
Good
Confidence
Rule
Results
Observational
Put
Until
Also
Confirmed
Theory
Forward
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel
Mistakes
Only
Theory
Original
Ever
Things
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.
Brian Greene
Space
Big
Universe
Extra
Other
Slice
Our
String
String Theory
Dimension
Ours
Would
Would-Be
Some
Cosmic
Bread
Which
Theory
Displaced
Loaf
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb
Best
Men
Distinct
Composed
Borrow
According
Human
Form
Lend
Races
Theory
Who
Human Species
Species
Two
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy
Life
Best
Good
Experience
My Life
Valid
Out
Good Ones
Some
Somehow
Ads
True
Over
Come
Real
Personal
Personal Experience
Done
Really
Persuasive
Theory
The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
Eddie Vedder
Cell Phone
Phones
Phone
Our
Way
Kids
Tried
See
Pockets
Attached
Rats
Had
Almost
Days
Like
Look
Until
Text
Lab
Times
Cell
Then
Theory
Whole
Twitch
Buzz
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
Elizabeth Warren
Today
Change
People
Financial
Better
Stress
Job
Lost
Thanks
Research
Local
Out
Kinds
Physicist
Major
Terms
How
Heard
Tests
Waitress
Georgia
Heartfelt
Get
Trying
Bank
Wants
Explain
Figure
Theory
Who
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Her
University
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
Love
Sex
Down
Every
Other
Individual
He
Himself
Lacks
Loves
Teaches
Theory
Each
Each Individual
Plato
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
Gregg Easterbrook
Good
You
World
Mind
Whatever
Would
Would-Be
Some
Could
Part
Like
Spontaneous
Know
Read
Blog
Blogs
Diaries
Diary
Your
Theory
Pops
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer
Nature
Property
Argument
Our
Fact
Communist
Theory
Elements
Suggested
Desire
Fatal
I believe in what I call 'the surfer's theory.' You see a really, really big wave. You keep surfing, keep going forward. You just don't look back.
Howard Lutnick
You
Big
Believe
Wave
Back
See
Look
Call
Surfing
Going
Just
Really
Theory
Forward
Keep
Keep Going
If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
Ivar Giaever
You
Experiment
Out
Physicist
Wrong
Sake
Were
Heaven
Cut
Then
Theory
Agree
Here
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.
Jacque Fresco
Great
History
Man
Science
Men
Believe
Other
Great Man
Great Men
Done
Just
Shoulders
Theory
Standing
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