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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Everything at a baseball game is pretty much health food if you subscribe to the theory that you're eating what makes you happy.
My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.
The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality.
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.
I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
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.
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.
The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.
For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.
I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
I don't actually believe in the 2012 Mayan theory at all, but I thought it would be a really dope thing to write about.
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.
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
That Hegel's theory is derivative from Fichte's does not prevent it from being strikingly original and of independent value.
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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.
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies
My theory is that when you're young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
