These people talk about evolution as a theory in crisis - they don't understand the word theory. In layman's terms a theory is just a guess or something unproven, but in science a theory implies something that has been proven and generally accepted as true.
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Related Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. MICHAEL BEHE In science, there has never been a more well-founded theory than evolutionary theory. It's as good a... GREGORY FORBES Evolution isn't just a story or a theory on the corner of science, evolution is the fundamental idea... WARREN ALLMON a theory in crisis. CHARLES DARWIN The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. B. F. SKINNER The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred h... GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many w... BILL NYE Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain... MARVIN HARRIS I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by obs... PHILIP PLAIT The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to e... P.R. BELL I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theor... DAVID BAKER I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unb... BEN STEIN The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on... MAX PLANCK Evolution is a crazy theory; he who believes in it is equally mad. MITTA XININDLU A falsifiable theory is one that makes a specific prediction about what results are supposed to occu... AUSTIN L. HUGHES Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't m... ALAN LESHNER Marge, I agree with you -- in theory. In theory, communism works. In theory. DAN CASTELLANETA The fact is that sooner or later, Andrew Wakefield will be exonerated, his theory will be accepted, ... F.E. YAZBAK M.D. F.A.A.P In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. ANONYMOUS Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually ... ANTHONY BEAL Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsif... BRIAN GREENE In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. MANFRED EIGEN In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is. MANFRED EIGEN In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. YOGI BERRA The Theory of Evolution. CHARLES DARWIN And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained -... DOUGLAS SIRK In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point ou... MICHAEL SHERMER The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. EOIN COLFER The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been... RICHARD DAWKINS Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It... ALAN LESHNER I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that... A. S. BYATT Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theo... SIRI HUSTVEDT A theory is something that allows you to do less work. LUCA TURIN The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. JAMES TOBIN I never accepted Communist dogma or theory. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri... RICHARD DAWKINS The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri... RICHARD DAWKINS After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory... JOHN HARSANYI Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth... ERNST MAYR Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one ... ALAN STERN There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cu... JUDITH BUTLER In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. YOGI BERRA In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. YOGI BERRA In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. CHUCK REID Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beg... MIKE BARFIELD The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor... THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor... THOMAS JEFFERSON Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste. H. L. MENCKEN The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, a... LEONARD SUSSKIND As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a the... DOUGLAS ALEXANDER All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a... LOUIS L'AMOUR My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. STEVEN WRIGHT My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. STEPHEN WRIGHT Don't confuse "hypothesis" and "theory." The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the corre... MARTIN H. FISCHER They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I no... OMAR SHARIF Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all nig... ISAAC ASIMOV Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would ... RICHARD DAWKINS If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts. BENEDICT SPINOZA In theory, ... We'll see about that. JIM JARMUSCH Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory. The concept of an intelligen... ALAN LESHNER Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory, ... The concept of an intell... ALAN LESHNER We believe evolution should be taught as a scientific theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not ... CASEY LUSKIN But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about dif... ANTONIN ARTAUD Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou... VIRGINIA WOOLF If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d... ALBERT EINSTEIN There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more... ALBERT EINSTEIN The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind. MANLY HALL You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Well basically, [evolution] is a scientific theory. It plays a very major role in biological researc... LES LANE Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the corre... MARTIN H. FISCHER There is nothing so practical as a good theory KURT LEWIN [Evolution is] a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen... RICHARD DAWKINS A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory... EDMUND BURKE If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d... ALBERT EINSTEIN If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will dec... ALBERT EINSTEIN I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. ... ABHIJIT NASKAR A lot of people didn't make it because they didn't understand germ theory back then. MARCIA LEITER The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now univer... ERWIN SCHRODINGER I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a... ALONZO CHURCH I think they should teach us that technically it's a theory. Then, teach us it's a theory, not that ... JOSH MOORE Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if th... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if th... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE JUNIOR See. It's just a theory! CHARLES DARWIN Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children'... R.L. STINE Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk... ISAAC ASIMOV I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, b... EUGENIE SCOTT Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of... RICHARD POWERS Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of som... RICHARD POWERS I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, ... GARTH STEIN The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption. WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It... JACK NICKLAUS Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose... JAMES D. WATSON Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose... JAMES D. WATSON Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory. ALAN GUTH To have mastered "method" and "theory" is to have become a self-conscious thinker, a man at work and... C. WRIGHT MILLS - THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION (1959:120-121) AS MENTIONED BY GERRING (SOCIAL SCIENC An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory. ERNST F. SCHUMACHER
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Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be... ALICE MUNRO The game was pretty well played defensively by both teams. It's a great feeling to get the shutout, ... ADAM MUNRO They made some pretty good shots. They seemed to take advantage of their power plays and they've obv... ADAM MUNRO It's good to get back in there and have a pretty solid game. It's a great feeling to get two points.... ADAM MUNRO It's good to play well and get the result you want. The two points are the biggest thing. ADAM MUNRO Bad goals to give up, the first and third. I've got to be better than that. Trent did the right thin... ADAM MUNRO I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner, and obviously it didn't go far enough. It w... ADAM MUNRO I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner and obviously it didn't go far enough. It wa... ADAM MUNRO You feel like you should get two points in a game like that. (The winning goal) hit my stick. I trie... ADAM MUNRO He's been a big help. He changed my style to make me more in control. Before I was more reacting and... ADAM MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a... ADAM MUNRO When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the ... ALICE MUNRO The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the thin... ALICE MUNRO The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo... ALICE MUNRO That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. ALICE MUNRO Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ... ALICE MUNRO The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is ea... ALICE MUNRO Losing is a part of winning. 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ALICE MUNRO Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually u... ALICE MUNRO Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or l... ALICE MUNRO I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then t... ALICE MUNRO I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way ever... ALICE MUNRO Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy... ALICE MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a... ADAM MUNRO A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a ... ALICE MUNRO There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there ... 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LYNDSAY MUNRO They made it deep into the second day at last weekend's tournament. And they picked up right where t... JESS MUNRO In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And thi... ALICE MUNRO In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes th... ALICE MUNRO I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything h... ALICE MUNRO I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov a... ALICE MUNRO I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there ha... ALICE MUNRO It's funny but last year I went through the same thing. Both goalies went down at the same time, And... ADAM MUNRO He made a big save. He must be listening to the goaltending coach, because he used the body pretty w... ADAM MUNRO I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange wor... ALICE MUNRO The constant happiness is curiosity. ALICE MUNRO I had my first baby at twenty-one. ALICE MUNRO I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th... ALICE MUNRO Avalon is full of desperate people.’ She bites at her lower lip this time, fumbling her hands, kni... CHARLOTTE MUNRO Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever... ALICE MUNRO It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence. ALICE MUNRO But we aren't a camping family. JAMIE MUNRO It was amazing. You had two huge crowds on the same night. You'd think they'd take away from each ot... JAMIE MUNRO It's grown so fast, it's hard to find the expertise for a start-up program. JAMIE MUNRO We had a good game today. Jeb had a great game and we had some guys really step up for us on both th... JAMIE MUNRO Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great tea... JAMIE MUNRO When you're 22 years old, you may or may not be a man. (Snider) is a man. He has been through a lot ... JAMIE MUNRO I think we really try to make our guys multi-dimensional. We want complete players. JAMIE MUNRO That's not going to happen. You become smarter. You learn from your mistakes. It's not going to happ... LYNDSAY MUNRO I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the ... ALICE MUNRO I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselve... ALICE MUNRO I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could ... ALICE MUNRO Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our... ALICE MUNRO I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,... ALICE MUNRO My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ... ALICE MUNRO I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... ALICE MUNRO That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. ALICE MUNRO I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, ... ALICE MUNRO Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w... ALICE MUNRO Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, whil... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea. J. RICHARD MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one go... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul,... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blam... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ... H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. H. H. MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. H. H. MUNRO People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu... WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood tha... HECTOR HUGH MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's... H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene... H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep. H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to... H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo... H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ... H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th... H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim... H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha... H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul... H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born. HECTOR HUGH MUNRO In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m... JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulys... JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm. ALAN Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions. SAKI [HECTOR HUGH MUNRO] The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene... SAKI [HECTOR HUGH MUNRO] Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. SAKI [HECTOR HUGH MUNRO] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations. 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ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea... ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political... ALAN SIEGEL On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12.... ALAN RICKMAN So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos... ALAN WATTS