Theory Quotes
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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
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Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.
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Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
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There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
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Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
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Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.
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All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.
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My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
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I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.
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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
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To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.
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My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
