Theory quotes

“- Raffi: Time doesn't go from January to December, or from noon to midnight. You know we all just make it that way in our heads.
- Claire: That's absurd! Try telling that to a person who's an hour late to a wedding, or that's just been sentenced to 20 years in jail.”
Jacob Latimore - Raffi
Kate Winslet - Claire

“The Emperor… wants to control outer space. Yoda... wants to explore inner space, and that is the fundamental difference between the good and the bad sides of the force.”
Danny Dyer - Moff

“A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.”
Walter Lang

“They won't fear it until they understand it. And they won't understand it until they've used it. Theory will take you only so far.”
Cillian Murphy - J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Dr. Randall Mindy

“- Jack: Women are easier, not physically, they're just easier to work with. More cooperative.
- Verge: To kill, you mean?
- Jack: If you like. Mr. Sophistication believes in that theory.
- Verge: So... Mr. Sophistication is the theoretician?”
Matt Dillon - Jack
Bruno Ganz - Verge

“- Dolores Umbridge: A theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.
- Harry Potter: And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what's out there?”
Imelda Staunton - Dolores Umbridge

“I have to confess I've never let the children watch a hockey game. I have a theory that children imitate what they see on a TV screen. If they see violence, they'll become violent. If they see someone stick up a bank, they'll stick up a bank. Heroin. You name it.”
Kathryn Walker - Anita McCambridge

“What if all these children that go missing...what if they are all connected?”
Lyriq Bent - Jordan

“Zat gravity, it's a killer.”
Walter Matthau - Albert Einstein

“Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes

I call it the "every other decade" theory. The 50's were boring. The 60's rocked. The 70's, my god, they obviously suck. So maybe the 80's will be like, radical. I figure we'll be in our 20's and hey, it can't get any worse.
Marissa Ribisi - Cynthia

“- Wayne Szalinski: Given that my machine can substantially reduce the size of bulky payloads... and fuel supplies of the savings to the space program would be staggering.
- Professor Frederickson: Mr. Szalinski, are you trying to tell me that suddenly size is no longer relative?”
Rick Moranis - Wayne Szalinski
Craig Richard Nelson - Professor Frederickson

“- Mr. Taggart: We've no guarantee that these theories of yours are workable.
- Thomas A. Edison: Well, most electricity is theory yet.”
Gene Lockhart - Mr. Taggart
Spencer Tracy - Thomas A. Edison

“I pieced together the photos of every murder and I laid them out chronologically. That red line right there indicates where his killing became erratic and inexplicable. All you've gotta do is set up a null hypothesis and try and prove it. And when you can't prove it, that means your original hypothesis must be true.”

Chris Marquette - Oliver

“As much as I enjoyed your wild theories the truth is far less complex.”

Timothy Dalton - Simon Skinner

“Right now you are just one little guy with a big conspiracy theory, and no proof, and the world is full of them. Take great care in what you choose to learn.”

Ron Silver - Phil Gordian

“Science will come up with some reason to put in the books, but in the end it'll be just a theory. I mean, we will fail to acknowledge that there are forces at work beyond our understanding.”
Mark Wahlberg - Elliot Moore

“Pigman is trying to prove the Caine-Hackman theory. No matter what time it is, 24 hours a day, you can find a Michael Caine or Gene Hackman movie playing on TV.”
Jeremy Piven - James 'Droz' Andrews

“- Diane Court: I have this theory of convergence, that good things always happen with bad things. I know you have to deal with them at the same time, but I just don't know why they have to happen at the same time. I just wish I could work out some schedule. Am I just babbling? Do you know what I mean?
- Lloyd Dobler: No.”
Ione Skye - Diane Court
John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler

Although he was considered insane by his peers, Bernoulli's theory states that the air flowing over a bird's wing is at a lower pressure than the air flowing under the wing. That's called "lift". Of course, it's only a theory, it's never been tested...

Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“Jesus, Tom, I was just speculatin' about a hypothesis. I know I don't know nothin'.”
Tom Toner - O'Doole

“He had a theory that if you should find one perfect thing, or place or person, you should stick to it.”

Joan Fontaine - Mrs. de Winter

“The Ancient Japanese considered the Go board to be a microcosm of the universe. Although when it is empty it appears to be simple and ordered, in fact, the possibilities of gameplay are endless. They say that no two Go games have ever been alike. Just like snowflakes. So, the Go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe.”
Mark Margolis - Sol Robeson

“- Bob Rosetti: You're Albert Einstein!
- Albert Einstein: Yes.
- Bob Rosetti: E equals M C squared!
- Albert Einstein: I hope so.”
Tony Shalhoub - Bob Rosetti
Walter Matthau - Albert Einstein