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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.
There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.
Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.
There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.