Theory Quotes
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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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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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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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When one theory is simpler than its competitor, this fact is relevant to saying what the world is like.
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I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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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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The important thing is what we do, and not the deceitful theory of reading others' intentions. This is also a new thing — they say: "We know that Iran's intention is to pursue nuclear weapons." Do you have a device that reads intentions?
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I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that were to be served, and I think there was a real wrong turn about 20 to 25 years ago when the theory began to be promoted that your highest duty - in fact, some would argue, your only duty - is to maximize shareholder return. I just don't buy it. And it wasn't the original underpinnings of the legal theory of corporate law.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
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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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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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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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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
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Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.
