Quotes About Theory

There are lots of theories that the simpler a comic character is drawn the more relatable they become. People can imprint themselves onto the gaps in the picture. The skill of cartooning is often working out how much can be stripped away.

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.

String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.

Raffi doesn't have any grand theories about why his music has been so successful, but he credits a group called the Babysitters as early inspiration.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.

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

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.