22 Movie Quotes about Theory (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about theory, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Theoretical? Do I have to remind you that theory is the beginning of solution?

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

2 Everybody's always sayin' what goes up must come down. With any luck, it'll work both ways. What goes down must come up. 'Course it's just a theory. Won't know for sure till we try it out.

Peter Cullen as Eeyore in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 I cannot accept half-baked theories that sell newspapers. I'm a scientist, not an alarmist.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

4 Yes. Perverted scientists who advance an insidious theory called evolution.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

5 Why don't you go and reread Aesop's Fables? Then perhaps next time you'll come to me with a rather more pertinent theory.

Vincent Price as Dr. Anton Phibes in The Abominable Dr. Phibes

6 It's going to be proved. My theory is going to be proved tonight.

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Antonio Bacile in The Doctor Prescribed Death (Suspense)

7 His entire theory worked in reverse.

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Antonio Bacile in The Doctor Prescribed Death (Suspense)

8 I tell you it's a new scientific theory. People only think coffee keeps them awake. Those kind of people are nervous wreck and couldn't sleep anyway.

Dick Powell as Jimmy in Christmas in July (1944)

9 That's the instant companion theory. Do you know Professor Balls? -Who? -Professor... Professor Balls.

Ted Wass as Sgt. Clifton Sleigh in Curse of the Pink Panther

10 You think I'm out of my mind. You laughed at me and my theory. You might be one of them.

Vincent Price as Dr. Robert Morgan in The Last Man on Earth (1964)

22 Movie Quotes about Theory (+ Sound Clips)

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