Theory Quotes · Page 79

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

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory…

— Alan Turing

Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to…

— Terry Pratchett

The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE…

— John Taylor Gatto

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well,…

— Lily Allen

We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.

— Alan Guth

Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's…

— Saharon Shelah

Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences…

— Mary Midgley

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

— Ryan Tedder

“The fact is that sooner or later, Andrew Wakefield will be exonerated, his theory will be accepted, and a vaccine-autism connection will…

— F.E. Yazbak M.D. F.A.A.P

Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end,…

— Travis Morrison

As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he…

— Anonymous

I think I worked an average of about 10 minutes a day [in Big Bang Theory series]. It took longer to get…

— Brent Spiner

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

— Lord Kelvin

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

— Ernst Haas

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…

— Auguste Comte

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.…

— Ada Leverson

The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.

— Jacqueline de Ribes

Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact,…

— Thomas Reid

The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of…

— Franklin Pierce

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Is that all?" asked Flambeau after a long pause. "Have we got to the dull truth at last?" "Oh, no," said Father…

— G.K. Chesterton

As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a…

— Richard Dawkins

[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going…

— Mohamed El-Erian

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the…

— Herbert Marcuse

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the…

— Angela Carter

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the…

— Mark Doty

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually…

— Igor Stravinsky

Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great…

— Zooey Deschanel

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those…

— Gottfried Leibniz