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There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
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.
[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.
It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . .
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.
To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.
You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?