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It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.
I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.
I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don't, they fester - unchecked and unchallenged.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.
My parents believed in the ideology of the Left. And being influenced by Marxism and Leninism theories, they chose Marlena as my second name.
Look, conspiracy theories are so much more interesting than the truth. But the last time I checked, Fox still has the word 'news' in its name.
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
Raffi doesn't have any grand theories about why his music has been so successful, but he credits a group called the Babysitters as early inspiration.
You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment.
When I am talking about politics, it is not about reading a book, theories on policies, but awareness on what is our right as a citizen of a democratic country.
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists.
Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
I happen to be a conservative, but one need not accept the Right's theories wholesale to acknowledge the sometimes negative effects of government action on health care.
I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.
We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.