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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.
There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.
I subscribe to the slow nickel theory. You take a little bit at a time. You always make better of what you have when you don't have best.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
There are a lot of people who don't think girl groups last very long, but Girls' Generation wants to break that theory.
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.
I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y
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.
We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Going into 2010, we didn't expect the consumer pullback that happened. We all thought that the theory that concerts are recession-proof was true.
Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.
Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.
I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.
Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.
In theory, I absolutely love to work from home, in all its warmth and comfort, but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it's a total failure.
If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.'
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.
Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.
My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.