Quotes About Theory

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

If you ask most atheists if the theory of evolution has anything to do with a belief, however, they will tell you that it doesn't. It's not something that has to be believed. It is a 'fact.'

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.