Theory Quotes · Page 125

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

— Kara Ross

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival…

— Daniel Goleman

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,…

— Charles Darwin

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

— Julie James

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements…

— Herbert Spencer

I want a theory to come out to guide policy.

— Fred D'Aguiar

I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my…

— E. B. White

I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out…

— Kirk Cameron

The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers…

— Richard E. Berendzen

The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it…

— Bob Woodward

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

— Barbara Corcoran

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice…

— John Rawls

I am flattered that Bob Carter should ask me to launch what I think is a significant new book on climate change.…

— Nick Minchin

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive…

— Charles Grandison Finney

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

— Natasha Lyonne

“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit…

— C.A.R. Hoare

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting…

— Hunter S. Thompson

We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good.…

— William J. Mitchell

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

— Alice Neel

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they…

— Nicholas Negroponte

You can *END* all types of things such as hate, anger, aggression, jealousy, grudges, temper, rage, arguments, relationships, fights, personal vendettas, beefs,…

— C-DASH