Theory Quotes
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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.
Talcott Parsons -
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
Flora Lewis
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
Kate Grenville -
I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
Natasha Lyonne -
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ...
Hannes Alfven -
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
Nelson Goodman -
In art, practice always comes before theory.
Pablo Picasso
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
Dabney Coleman -
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken -
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
Edd Roush -
Life sends you angels sometimes when you're in need and, in my theory, it's usually never the people you expect to be there. They are often gone the people that appear with a piece of advice or something they want to give to you to help you through are generally surprising people and I wanted Kirsten's character to be that.
Cameron Crowe -
I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
Park Chan-wook -
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
Albert Einstein
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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
Abraham Kaplan -
There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
Imre Lakatos -
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman -
There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
Dan Aykroyd -
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
Epictetus -
I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
Karen Gillan
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Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.
H. Allen Smith -
What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.
Dallas Willard -
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
E. W. Howe -
I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
Jack Warner