When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary... — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“You’re the keyboard wizard; the Google Scholar; the armchair expert; the one with a quote for every occasion. That’s your Hallmark, if… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, “Natura non… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
What I argue is that talk of knowledge plays an important role in theories within cognitive ethology. The idea is this. First,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff. — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study. — Hendrik Lenstra Copy Share Image
We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe -… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe we have two ideas about how movies are made in our heads. Idealizations. Platonic ideals. One of them is of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I don't think that the trickle-down theory of diversity ever really works. — Kimberly Bryant Copy Share Image
I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to… — John Fraser Copy Share Image
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