Garrett Camp

The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.

Canadian Businessman

Theodore Roosevelt

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

American President

Stephen Hawking

According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

English Physicist

Gilbert Gottfried

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

American Comedian

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

German Writer

Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

American Journalist

Kenneth R. Miller

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

American Scientist

Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

German Physicist

Paul Samuelson

American Economist

Anthony Trollope

English Author

Theories in science are well-substantiated explanations, but not always proven facts.

Not Always Proven

Theories aim to explain broad patterns or phenomena, not isolated events.

Broad Explanations

When 'my theory is' used, it expresses a personal belief or interpretation.

Personal Interpretation

The word can rationalize decisions or behavior in everyday life.

Justifying Actions

Music theory is specialized knowledge, often studied formally.

Academic Discipline

Music theory goes beyond playing instruments to include how music is structured.

Beyond Performance

Legal theory encompasses ideas that underpin laws and legal systems.

Legal Frameworks

Legal theory discusses how things should work ideally, not always in practice.

Ideal vs. Practice

 However, recent theories in physics, including one called string theory, are now telling us there could be countless other universes built on different types of particles, with different properties, obeying different laws. Most of these universes could never support life, and might flash in and out of existence in a nanosecond.

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 was be the change you want to see in the world and my case for all of this is that we need a theory of change and what policy makers often seem to believe is that they can only affect change in schools by grabbing the reins and taking command of everything and controlling it and that's what we're seeing around the

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 Importantly, the allegory is connected to the theory of forms, developed in Plato's other dialogues, which holds that like the shadows on the wall, things in the physical world are flawed reflections of ideal forms, such as roundness, or beauty. In this way, the cave leads to many fundamental questions,

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 Additionally, mounting evidence suggests we'll need to figure out how to eradicate cancer stem cells. These are rare but seem to have special properties that make them resistant to chemotherapy and radiation. In theory, even if the rest of the tumor shrinks beyond detection during treatment,

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 North Star in theory moths similarly follow the light source at a precise position and a precise angle to their bodies this is how moths would navigate for millions of years by the light of the moon what moth evolution couldn't account for was the proliferation of constant

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 And in the years since, we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream. So, after a great deal of scientific research, technological advancement, and persistence, we still don't have any definite answers, but we have some interesting theories.

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 Is it all we need? Do we need it at all? If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet. But over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories.

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 Now, throughout history, men practically had a license to cheat with little consequence, and supported by a host of biological and evolutionary theories that justified their need to roam, so the double standard is as old as adultery itself.

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 But while chimps across the world only have a limited repertoire of vocalizations, they constantly invent and share new gestures with each other. One theory basically is that they imitate gestures from each other.

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 He developed three brilliant laws of planetary motion while he was studying decades of precise astronomical data in an effort to find support for his theory. While his three laws are still in use today,

Theory

A set of ideas or principles used to explain something.

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An idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action.

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In music, the study of how music works.

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In law, a rule or principle that is abstract rather than concrete.

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