Top 1200 String Theory Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value.

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

We want best efforts guided by theory.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to the next by a logical string. In truth, whenever we discover a new fact it involves the elimination of old ones. We are always, as it turns out, fundamentally in error.

There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The theory of government changes with general progress.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real people, how to properly pace a story, how to develop interesting characters.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.

I was getting bored and, I think, being a real pest. I remember Brando coming and sitting on the bed and cutting out the most exquisite paper fish, with detailed scales and fins. Then he took a hotel pen and a piece of string and made a fishing pole.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.

What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it to capital markets. When you look at capital markets through the lens of complexity theory, you ask "what's the scale of the system?" Scale is a fancy word for size. What measures are you using? If you look at total debt, the concentration of assets in the five largest banks, what percentage of the total assets of the five largest banks are interconnected? What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.

I've never been much for theory and scales.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and 'Not for You' was the first time I used it. It was like a Christmas present. One day, it just showed up at my door. I called him up and thanked him.