I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my identity.
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed.
I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.
A rare theorist turned experimentalist.
I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.
There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.
If music was made by some kind of critical theorist, it would sound like my music.
I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.
I can assure you that no string theorist would be interested in working on string theory if it were somehow permanently beyond testability. That would no longer be doing science.
I guess I was a conspiracy theorist when I said "no weapons in Iraq." Now they call that history.
Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.