22 Movie Quotes about Theory (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: June 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about theory, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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?

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.