Quotes About Theory

I will find this girl," hissed the Invincible Lord, and Undauntable felt a stab of fear for Wren. "I will find her, and her dragon — or dragons, if Boar's theory is correct. You can be of use to me, or you can be a stupid waste of space, as usual. But either way, one day I will control the girl who controls dragons, and then … then the whole world will be mine at last.

You must have a theory, Bobby said. Here it is. The killer has multiple personality disorder. Justine sighed. And every one of his personalities is psychopathic.

Oulipo does not "explain" poetry, Ouilpo tries to find constraints for new kinds of poems. Oulipo is not into theory, it is a place of creation.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Businesspeople are not used to thinking about closed systems;economists are.

Einstein believed the truth of a theory is, for certain, borne out by whether it successfully predicts experience. But the relationship between the theory and the experience can only be grasped intuitively.

Thales of Miletus, the first philosopher-scientist. His theory that the world had developed from one element (water) was just the beginning. This idea, once conceived, was quickly developed by Thales' pupils in Miletus – the philosophers known as the Milesian school. One of these was Anaximenes

What he liked best was taking things apart, even books, even the Bible. He said the Bible was like an owner's guide, a repair manual to an unfinished invention. He also said the Bible was a wilderness. It was one of Father's theories that there were parts of the Bible the no one had ever read, just as there were parts of the world where no one had ever set foot.

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The problem with the world is not a shortage of brilliant theories or feel-good slogans. The problem is that we confuse proliferation of progressive terminology with profound empathy and purposeful engagement. We say the right things, but we fail to act on them because we want to feel virtuous without paying a price

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science