Theory Quotes

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.

I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

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.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

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.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

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.

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.