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In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
I don't believe people who think dreams aren't reality nor will they ever be. We follow that theory of making it a reality.
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.
I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.
If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.
If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.
Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.
I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact.
Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.
The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.