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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
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.
Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
My theory is that women simply can't get along with each other or work well together.
I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.
The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.
There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.
A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.
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.
According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.
It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.
It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.
Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.
In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.
Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.
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.
I mean, I'm the tag of the [ Big Bang Theory ] show! That was one of the easiest jobs I've ever had.
The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.
My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.
Quantum field theory arose out of our need to describe the ephemeral nature of life.
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.
Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
I feel like if you just walk with a purpose, people will think you're supposed to be there. That's my life theory.
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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. . .
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
