Quotes about Theories

Theories pass. The frog remains. Votes: 4

Theories then are dangerous things. Votes: 3

Theories without data are like daydreams. Votes: 3

Theories have nothing to do with life ... Votes: 3

Theories are just fantasies. And they change. Votes: 3

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. Votes: 3

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete Votes: 3

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. Votes: 3

Theories might inspire you, but experiments will advance you. Votes: 3

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains. Votes: 3

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre. Votes: 3

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. Votes: 3

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction. Votes: 3

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge Votes: 3

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same. Votes: 3

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. Votes: 3

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. Votes: 3

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. Votes: 3

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. Votes: 3

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off. Votes: 3

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Votes: 3

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. Votes: 3

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them. Votes: 3

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant. Votes: 3

The drawers in my mind are rattling to break open. Memories. Theories. Whispers and sensations. I shove them off a cliff. Votes: 3

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point. Votes: 3

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space Votes: 3

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance. Votes: 3

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. Votes: 3

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease. Votes: 3

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure. Votes: 3

Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....] Votes: 3

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way. Votes: 3

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. Votes: 3

Hey listen -- I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away. Votes: 3

Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is better to protect your heart or to take the biggest risk of all. Votes: 3

People love conspiracy theories. Votes: 2

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. Votes: 2

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. Votes: 2

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. Votes: 2

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. Votes: 2

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. Votes: 2

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. Votes: 2

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. Votes: 2

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing. Votes: 2

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person. Votes: 2

I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment. Votes: 2

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others. Votes: 2

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field. Votes: 2

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. Votes: 2

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. Votes: 2

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. Votes: 2

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. Votes: 2

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. Votes: 2

Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book. Votes: 2

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence. Votes: 2

Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. Votes: 2

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. Votes: 2

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. Votes: 2

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. Votes: 2

I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest. Votes: 2

Very dangerous things, theories. Votes: 0

Even theories must have foundations. Votes: 0

Skills make you rich, not theories. Votes: 0

All the theories mess you up inside. Votes: 0

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire Votes: 0

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories. Votes: 0

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. Votes: 0

Scientists would rather change facts than their theories. Votes: 0

I have a theory that theories are destructive. Votes: 0

Literary theories will not make a writer write. Votes: 0

One of the stupidest theories of Western life. Votes: 0

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. Votes: 0

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered. Votes: 0

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories. Votes: 0

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations. Votes: 0

I have no useful theories about love and marriage. Votes: 0

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious. Votes: 0

We see the world in terms of our theories. Votes: 0

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation. Votes: 0

Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories. Votes: 0

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. Votes: 0

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment. Votes: 0

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor. Votes: 0

The economists will have to revise their theories of value. Votes: 0

A good teacher offers practice , a bad one offers theories . Votes: 0

we always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent ... Votes: 0

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear. Votes: 0

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories. Votes: 0

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer Votes: 0

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see. Votes: 0

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. Votes: 0

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. Votes: 0

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works. Votes: 0

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. Votes: 0

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough. Votes: 0

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. Votes: 0

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. Votes: 0

There are several theories on sex and all of them are lies. Votes: 0

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. Votes: 0

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! Votes: 0

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. Votes: 0

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. Votes: 0

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Votes: 0

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. Votes: 0

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions. Votes: 0

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. Votes: 0

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. Votes: 0

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency Votes: 0

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories. Votes: 0

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts. Votes: 0

Theres a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many. Votes: 0

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. Votes: 0

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind. Votes: 0

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories. Votes: 0

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many. Votes: 0

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics. Votes: 0

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree. Votes: 0

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. Votes: 0

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. Votes: 0

I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle. Votes: 0

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths. Votes: 0

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. Votes: 0

In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts Votes: 0

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. Votes: 0

Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that. Votes: 0

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. Votes: 0

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves. Votes: 0

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical. Votes: 0

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. Votes: 0

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother. Votes: 0

Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories. Votes: 0

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Votes: 0

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories. Votes: 0

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. Votes: 0

From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. Votes: 0

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach. Votes: 0

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. Votes: 0

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories. Votes: 0

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. Votes: 0

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. Votes: 0

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. Votes: 0

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did. Votes: 0

It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love. Votes: 0

I just know that there are two theories when arguing with women. And neither one works. Votes: 0

When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn't involve a magic spell. Votes: 0

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous. Votes: 0

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories. Votes: 0

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. Votes: 0

Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories. Votes: 0

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. Votes: 0

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. Votes: 0

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity. Votes: 0

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore. Votes: 0

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit. Votes: 0

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. Votes: 0

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. Votes: 0

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. Votes: 0

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. Votes: 0

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. Votes: 0

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. Votes: 0

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. Votes: 0

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. Votes: 0

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close. Votes: 0

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success. Votes: 0

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred. Votes: 0

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better. Votes: 0

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial. Votes: 0

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. Votes: 0

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity. Votes: 0

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. Votes: 0

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. Votes: 0

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. Votes: 0

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests." Votes: 0

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous. Votes: 0

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. Votes: 0

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory. Votes: 0

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda. Votes: 0

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. Votes: 0

Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love. Votes: 0

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color. Votes: 0

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. Votes: 0

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries Votes: 0

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS. Votes: 0

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild. Votes: 0

For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. Votes: 0

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. Votes: 0

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. Votes: 0

Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses. Votes: 0

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did. Votes: 0

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price. Votes: 0

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments. Votes: 0

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some. Votes: 0

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. Votes: 0

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. Votes: 0

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker. Votes: 0

It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past. Votes: 0

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. Votes: 0

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. Votes: 0

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. Votes: 0

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. Votes: 0

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. Votes: 0

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul Votes: 0

They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy. Votes: 0

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams. Votes: 0

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God. Votes: 0

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. Votes: 0

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something. Votes: 0

In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'." Votes: 0

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them. Votes: 0

As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. Votes: 0

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. Votes: 0

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species. Votes: 0

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma. Votes: 0

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be. Votes: 0

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. Votes: 0

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal. Votes: 0

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Votes: 0

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them. Votes: 0

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. Votes: 0

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account. Votes: 0

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about. Votes: 0

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. Votes: 0

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. Votes: 0

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs. Votes: 0

I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I followed. Votes: 0

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics. Votes: 0

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change. Votes: 0

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas. Votes: 0

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things. Votes: 0

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth. Votes: 0

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Votes: 0

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague. Votes: 0

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. Votes: 0

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change. Votes: 0

Whoever has the mind stuffed with theories and more theories, suffers horribly because he is unable to realize nothing of what they have read.. Votes: 0

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories. Votes: 0

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. Votes: 0

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit. Votes: 0

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations. Votes: 0

The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked. Votes: 0

The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4. Votes: 0

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life. Votes: 0

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on. Votes: 0

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories. Votes: 0

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible. Votes: 0

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us. Votes: 0

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. Votes: 0

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out. Votes: 0

Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists. Votes: 0

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. Votes: 0

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed. Votes: 0

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer. Votes: 0

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind. Votes: 0

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could. Votes: 0

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on. Votes: 0

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. Votes: 0

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits. Votes: 0

It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT. Votes: 0

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail. Votes: 0

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy. Votes: 0

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories. Votes: 0

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing Votes: 0

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse. Votes: 0

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another. Votes: 0

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world. Votes: 0

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories. Votes: 0

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories. Votes: 0

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance. Votes: 0

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. Votes: 0

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right. Votes: 0

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline. Votes: 0

Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it. Votes: 0

I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories. Votes: 0

Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity. Votes: 0

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Votes: 0

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong. Votes: 0

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time. Votes: 0

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics. Votes: 0

You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon. Votes: 0

The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines. Votes: 0

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock. Votes: 0

In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster. Votes: 0

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. Votes: 0

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of. Votes: 0

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go. Votes: 0

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. Votes: 0

I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show [Westworlds]. I promise." Votes: 0

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. Votes: 0

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research. Votes: 0

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed. Votes: 0

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built. Votes: 0

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. Votes: 0

There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage. Votes: 0

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories. Votes: 0

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations. Votes: 0

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate. Votes: 0

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical. Votes: 0

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules. Votes: 0

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy. Votes: 0

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people. Votes: 0

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. Votes: 0

I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives. Votes: 0

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour. Votes: 0

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined. Votes: 0

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi . Votes: 0

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms. Votes: 0

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. Votes: 0

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. Votes: 0

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence. Votes: 0

Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature. Votes: 0

Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient. Votes: 0

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world. Votes: 0

The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever. Votes: 0

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. Votes: 0

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would. Votes: 0

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers. Votes: 0

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. Votes: 0

When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism. Votes: 0

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete. Votes: 0

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love! Votes: 0

My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds. Votes: 0

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.' Votes: 0

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things. Votes: 0

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. Votes: 0

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed. Votes: 0

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. Votes: 0

As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men. Votes: 0

It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour Party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people. Votes: 0

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application. Votes: 0

I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change. Votes: 0

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution. Votes: 0

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical. Votes: 0

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. Votes: 0

There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions. Votes: 0

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn't happened. Votes: 0

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. Votes: 0

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs. Votes: 0

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition. Votes: 0

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. Votes: 0

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people. Votes: 0

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend. Votes: 0

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. Votes: 0

To me, as a visual artist, I don't want to get into the theory of Buddhism. There are many Buddhism theories and they fight each other, like Christians as well. Votes: 0

While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking. Votes: 0

I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's crazy" and make it into this crazy thing. Votes: 0

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. Votes: 0

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff. Votes: 0

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own. Votes: 0

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. Votes: 0

The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them. Votes: 0

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty. Votes: 0

When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories. Votes: 0

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts. Votes: 0

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind. Votes: 0

Therefore psychologically we must keep all the theories in our heads, and every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics. Votes: 0

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips. Votes: 0

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own. Votes: 0

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind. Votes: 0

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?. Votes: 0

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. Votes: 0

Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon. Votes: 0

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. Votes: 0

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another. Votes: 0

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. Votes: 0

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now! Votes: 0

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head. Votes: 0

I'd heard theories. Destruction of forests had altered pressure zones. Global warming made for stronger storms. Chemtrails indicated government manipulation of the weather. God punished the family and neighbors of idolaters. Votes: 0

The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases. Votes: 0

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes. Votes: 0

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them. Votes: 0

To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex. Votes: 0

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Votes: 0

The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate. Votes: 0

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones, Votes: 0

The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden. Votes: 0

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes. Votes: 0

Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things. Votes: 0

Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense, and most never acknowledge that they were wrong. Votes: 0

The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality. Votes: 0

Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism. Votes: 0

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. Votes: 0

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production. Votes: 0

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it. Votes: 0

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. Votes: 0

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories. Votes: 0

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell. Votes: 0

"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories. Votes: 0

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable. Votes: 0

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at. Votes: 0

What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them. Votes: 0

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. Votes: 0

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try Votes: 0

Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail. Votes: 0

...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers. Votes: 0

Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions. Votes: 0

For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water. Votes: 0

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions. Votes: 0

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture). Votes: 0

These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth. Votes: 0

The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom. Votes: 0

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. Votes: 0

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true. Votes: 0

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. Votes: 0

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.] Votes: 0

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors. Votes: 0

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. Votes: 0

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society. Votes: 0

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done. Votes: 0

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way. Votes: 0

The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity. Votes: 0

Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play. Votes: 0

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences. Votes: 0

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action. Votes: 0

I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right. Votes: 0

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Votes: 0

We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them. Votes: 0

The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality. Votes: 0

String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us. Votes: 0

Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law. Votes: 0

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. Votes: 0

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has! Votes: 0

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge. Votes: 0

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed Votes: 0

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man. Votes: 0

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories. Votes: 0

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be. Votes: 0

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them. Votes: 0

We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories. Votes: 0

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created. Votes: 0

There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is that two different theories that are too powerful must necessarily contradict each other. Votes: 0

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true. Votes: 0

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar. Votes: 0

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise. Votes: 0