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Within the quirky companionship of mismatched socks lies an insurgent declaration: clothing need not adhere to expectation but thrive in a dance of delightful differences.
Author:
Amelia Vertrags
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Unfolding truths often hide beneath layers of uncertainty; imperfect knowledge is the canvas on which true innovation piles its vibrant strokes.
Author:
Alex Root
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In architecting temporal bridges, we sculpt experience with rhythm, desiring time not just to traverse but to resonate.
Author:
Aiden Blanca
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Intuitive learning forms an intricate tapestry woven from experienced moments, where understanding bends seamlessly around new calculations and reveals paths unnoticed in neatly assigned shapes.
Author:
Alexander Bechtel
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In the angles of imperfection and the curves of chance, we uncover new perspectives, shedding light on how spontaneous altruism redefines the connections between stranger and kin.
Author:
Aurelia Evenson
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In audible silence, the unseen spectrums of color whisper tales to those who dare to listen beyond what meets the eye.
Author:
Elanor Vesper
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Harmony in society takes shape like a complex octahedron, where every angle must align, yet allow for peaks and valleys of individuality.
Author:
Clara Penry
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True mental toughness is not borne from never knowing hardship, but in embracing vulnerability and forging resilience through the flames theories can never predict.
Author:
Riley Penske
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Within the circuitry of our memories, nostalgia dances to a harmony of vintage streams, infusing presentendimento with echoes of forgotten melodies.
Author:
Cassian Strohm
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In the shimmering dance between particles and ideals, we discover a serene pulse echoing the harmony within chaos, presenting an art expressive as the silence mimicked in our consciousness.
Author:
Liora Barnes
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Humor flourishes in the friction of imperfect connections across generations, providing laughter that echoes joy and shadows truth.
Author:
Willow Andrea
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The unspoken whispers of the sky interlace sentential phrases that dance through the unseen; unveiling knowledge requires not letters, but perception perceptioning itself.
Author:
Achikara Noir
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Often, it is not the people we seek that end up reshaping our journeys but the random crossings of strangers--these are the moments where understanding roams free and inspiration pierces the mundane.
Author:
Amara Liu
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Timeless design marries legacy with voids of the present; it underlines the persistence of elegance, crafting solutions that challenge today yet rarely falter in the eyes of tomorrow.
Author:
Helena Strasfeld
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In dust-shrouded pages lay not merely old dishes, but the sentimental dialogues of our ancestors, beseeching us to revisit flavors stitched with love and wild ambition.
Author:
Evelyn Gardiner
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The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.
Author:
Jiang Zemin
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On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
Author:
Jennifer Wyatt
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Author:
Steven Wright
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.
Author:
Edward Witten
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I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.
Author:
Edward Witten
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
Author:
Edward Witten
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Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.
Author:
Edward Witten
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On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.
Author:
Edward Witten
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So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.
Author:
Edward Witten
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String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
Author:
Edward Witten
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The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.
Author:
Edward Witten
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There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
Author:
Edward Witten
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There is no complete theory of anything.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.
Author:
Roy Williams
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In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
Author:
Roy Williams
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Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.
Author:
Roy Williams
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According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.
Author:
Roy Williams
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I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
Author:
Montel Williams
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
Author:
George Williams
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
Author:
Chaim Weizmann
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Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.
Author:
James Watson
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On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
Author:
A. Vogt
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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.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.
Author:
Dalton Trumbo
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
Author:
Robert Trout
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.
Author:
James Tobin
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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
Author:
James Tobin
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
Author:
Major Taylor
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Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
Author:
Jimmy Swaggart
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Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.
Author:
Louis Stokes
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Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
Author:
George Stigler
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I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
Author:
George Stigler
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
Author:
Robert Sternberg
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Author:
Jack Steinberger
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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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.
Author:
Adam Smith
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Author:
Cornelia Skinner
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
Author:
Curtis Sittenfeld
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And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
Author:
George Simpson
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
Author:
Sam Sheppard
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In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Author:
Robert Shaw
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
Author:
Omar Sharif
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I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
Author:
Jon Secada
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In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
Author:
Tom Seaver
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They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.
Author:
Dwight Schultz
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The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
Author:
Erwin Schrodinger
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The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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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.
Author:
Rick Santorum
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Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
Author:
Joey Santiago
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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Author:
George Santayana
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I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
Author:
James Sanborn
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Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
Author:
Paul Samuelson
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My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
Author:
Andrei Sakharov
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Author:
Mark Russell
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If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
Author:
Dave Ronk
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There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
Author:
Jay Roach
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Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.
Author:
Jacques Rivette
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I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.
Author:
Ivan Reitman
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Author:
Wilhelm Reich
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Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
Author:
Richard Powers
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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
Author:
Chaim Potok
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Author:
Karl Popper
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The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
Author:
Frederick Pollock
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Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Author:
Michael Polanyi
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I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.
Author:
Roger Penrose
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In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.
Author:
Roger Penrose
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Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.
Author:
Roger Penrose
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The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
Author:
Roger Penrose
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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
Author:
James Penney
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Author:
Talcott Parsons
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Author:
Talcott Parsons
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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
Author:
Talcott Parsons
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Author:
Talcott Parsons
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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.
Author:
Talcott Parsons
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In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.
Author:
Evan Parker
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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
Author:
Wilhelm Ostwald
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The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
Author:
George Oppen
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That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.
Author:
Shaquille O'Neal
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The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.
Author:
Robert Nozick
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
Author:
Jack Nicklaus
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I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
Author:
Joanna Newsom
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The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
Author:
James Newman
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A theory must be tempered with reality.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Author:
Mike Myers
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
Author:
Peter Mitchell
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Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
Author:
Peter Mitchell
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Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
Author:
Peter Mitchell
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
Author:
Adrian Mitchell
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Author:
Yukio Mishima
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
Author:
Kenneth Miller
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We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
Author:
Kenneth Miller
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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
Author:
H. Mencken
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
Author:
H. Mencken
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
Author:
H. Mencken
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Author:
H. Mencken
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After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.
Author:
Simon Meer
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My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.
Author:
James Meade
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Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.
Author:
Brian McKnight
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There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
Author:
Mark McGrath
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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.
Author:
Pete McCloskey
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Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
Author:
John McCarthy
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The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
Author:
Giuseppe Mazzini
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The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Author:
Ernst Mayr
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Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
Author:
Marissa Mayer
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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
Author:
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
Author:
Rudolph Marcus
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My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.
Author:
Murray Mann
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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
Author:
Catharine MacKinnon
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The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
Author:
James Lovelock
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Author:
Flora Lewis
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
Author:
Vladimir Lenin
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Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
Author:
Vladimir Lenin
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Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
Author:
Bill Lee
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The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory.
Author:
Teresa Lauretis
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But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either.
Author:
Teresa Lauretis
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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
Author:
Max Laue
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If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
Author:
Max Laue
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My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
Author:
Tommy Lasorda
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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.
Author:
Christian Lange
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Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
Author:
Christian Lange
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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Walter Lang
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THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
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Joseph Lancaster
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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Imre Lakatos
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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.
Author:
Imre Lakatos
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
Author:
Imre Lakatos
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Author:
Imre Lakatos
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
Author:
R. Laing
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Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
Author:
Thomas Kuhn
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It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Author:
Saul Kripke
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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.
Author:
John Kricfalusi
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What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.
Author:
Mark Knopfler
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Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
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Morris Kline
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Author:
Felix Klein
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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.
Author:
Stephen Kleene
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Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
Author:
Val Kilmer
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Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
Author:
James Joule
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It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
Author:
Quincy Jones
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
Author:
Phillip Johnson
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I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.
Author:
Daniel Johns
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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Author:
Billy Joel
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I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
Author:
Jewel
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
Author:
Hale Irwin
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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
Author:
Ruth Hubbard
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Author:
Edward Howe
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Author:
Edgar Howe
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
Author:
Joel Hodgson
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The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
Author:
James Hillman
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You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
Author:
James Hillman
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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
Author:
David Hilbert
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A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
Author:
David Hilbert
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
Author:
Salma Hayek
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Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Author:
Friedrich Hayek
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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.
Author:
Jeff Hawkins
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Author:
Stephen Hawking
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If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Author:
Stephen Hawking
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Author:
Ian Hart
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
Author:
Neil Harris
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
Author:
Marvin Harris
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I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Author:
Lionel Hampton
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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.
Author:
Christopher Hampton
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Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
Author:
Peter Hammill
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My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.
Author:
Tom Hall
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Author:
Manly Hall
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Author:
G. Hall
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Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
Author:
Brian Greene
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If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
Author:
Brian Greene
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Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
Author:
Asa Gray
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The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
Author:
Peter Grant
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It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.
Author:
David Gower
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Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.
Author:
Linda Godwin
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Author:
Andre Gide
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
Author:
Balthazar Getty
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Author:
Harold Geneen
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
Author:
Harold Geneen
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Author:
Garet Garrett
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My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.
Author:
Victor Garber
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As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.
Author:
Toshihiko Fukui
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The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.
Author:
Toshihiko Fukui
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But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.
Author:
Kenichi Fukui
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This success led my theoretical group to the chemical reactivity theory, extending more and more widely the range of compound and reactions that were discussed.
Author:
Kenichi Fukui
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The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
Author:
Thomas Friedman
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The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Author:
Milton Friedman
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Author:
Gary Francione
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My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
Author:
Faith Ford
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The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
Author:
John Fleming
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We completely reject the theory of evolution.
Author:
John Fleming
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The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
Author:
Martin Fleischmann
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Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
Author:
Martin Fischer
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I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
Author:
Joseph Fiennes
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Author:
Richard Feynman
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Author:
Richard Feynman
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In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.
Author:
Martin Feldstein
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I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
Author:
Paul Farmer
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See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
Author:
John Fahey
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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
Author:
Roland Emmerich
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Author:
Larry Elder
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There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Author:
Manfred Eigen
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Author:
Manfred Eigen
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Author:
Manfred Eigen
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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
Author:
Arthur Eddington
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If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Author:
Arthur Eddington
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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
Author:
David Eddings
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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
Author:
Andrea Dworkin
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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
Author:
Alan Dundes
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The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
Author:
Mary Douglas
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Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
Author:
Wilhelm Dilthey
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Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
Author:
Neil Diamond
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
Author:
W. Deming
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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
Author:
Robert Delaunay
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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Author:
Claude Debussy
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In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
Author:
Gerard Debreu
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I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.
Author:
Gerard Debreu
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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
Author:
Richard Dawkins
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Author:
Jefferson Davis
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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
Author:
Matt Damon
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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Author:
Georges Cuvier
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My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
Author:
George Cuvier
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Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Author:
Sheryl Crow
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I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.
Author:
Uberto Crescenti
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I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
Author:
Marion Cotillard
