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I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
- Harry Frankfurt
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Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
- Paul Samuelson
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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.
- Arthur Eddington
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
- A. E. van Vogt
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The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
- Henry Charles Carey
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One of the main successes of string theory is that it has been able to unify the general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, and quantum mechanics.
- Ashoke Sen
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I came to realise that string theory offers us the best hope of finding a unified theory of all matter and forces.
- Ashoke Sen
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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.
- Robert Wyatt
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I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
- Eric Whitacre
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
- Wilfred Burchett
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My theory is to let everyone in on what works and let the best man win.
- Brian Shaw
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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.
- Pieter Zeeman
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Mercantilism was an insidious economic theory that held Europe in its thrall in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
- Steve Hanke
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I always had the theory that if you have a dream, chase it. And I'm chasing it.
- Rau'Shee Warren
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
- Gary L. Francione
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I work in string theory. This is a branch of physics which assumes that the elementary objects in the universe are not particles but one-dimensional objects, that is, strings.
- Ashoke Sen
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There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
- Brian Schmidt
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
- Hans Jonas
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'The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.
- Jim Parsons
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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.
- Paul Watzlawick
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
- Imre Lakatos
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
- 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.
- Imre Lakatos
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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.
- Ernst Mayr
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Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
- Peter Hammill
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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.
- David Hilbert
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My work on symmetries of string theory is on what is known as strong-weak coupling duality, or S-duality.
- Ashoke Sen
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I learned Einstein's theory of relativity when I was still in school. I simply got interested.
- George Gamow
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Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
- Chaim Weizmann
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From the beginnings of modern monetary theory, in David Hume's marvelous essays of 1752, 'Of Money and Of Interest,' conclusions about the effect of changes in money have seemed to depend critically on the way in which the change is effected.
- Robert Lucas, Jr.
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
- Neil Patrick Harris
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In macroeconomic theory, there is this argument that what the Fed does has no effect on unemployment, no effect on investment, no effect on the rate of GDP growth.
- Paul Romer
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Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.
- Alan Guth
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Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.
- Siri Hustvedt
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My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
- Blythe Danner
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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
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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
- Thomas Malthus
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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.
- Kenichi Fukui
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I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.
- Michael Azerrad
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There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
- Keegan-Michael Key
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In theory, and I think in practice, I am immune to the strain of Ebola that I was infected with. But there are five different strains of Ebola.
- Kent Brantly
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There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
- Christopher Hampton
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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.
- Andrea Dworkin
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I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.
- Sturgill Simpson
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
- Ha-Joon Chang
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
- Geoffrey West
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I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
- James Hetfield
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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
- Ruth Hubbard
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I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.
- Angus Deaton
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The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.
- Eric Maskin
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There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.
- Jeremy Grantham
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
- Nancy Pearcey
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I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.
- George Hickenlooper
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I don't shop much, but my go-to brands are Topman, John Varvatos, AllSaints, Marc Jacobs, and Theory. Of course I like Nike; that's a given.
- Kendrick Sampson
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The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.
- Martin Fleischmann
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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.
- Yukihiro Matsumoto
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I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
- James Blake
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My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
- Dylan McDermott
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Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
- Jill Lepore
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I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
- Chris Young
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There was one week where I got mistaken for Hasan Minhaj, who is on 'The Daily Show;' Kunal Nayyar, who's on 'Big Bang Theory;' and Karan Soni of 'Ghostbusters.' This was one week.
- Kumail Nanjiani
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After 'DmC' came out, we had a fantastic relationship with Ninja Theory, and we loved what they made. We wanted to see a sequel to that.
- Hideaki Itsuno
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I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.
- Mary Daly
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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.
- Kenneth L. Pike
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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.
- Kenneth L. Pike
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I like to call it the scalar boson because this reflects an essential component of the theory - it means that the field the boson travels through has no preferred direction, unlike the way a magnetic field does.
- Francois Englert
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The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
- Chen-Ning Yang
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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.
- Saul Kripke
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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.
- 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.
- Edward Witten
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The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
- Frederick Pollock
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A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
- David Levering Lewis
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I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.
- Reinhard Selten
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
- P. J. O'Rourke
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
- Jefferson Davis
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The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.
- Alan J. Heeger
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If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
- Morris Raphael Cohen
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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.
- Linda M. Godwin
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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.
- Robert Nozick
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The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
- Brandon Boyd
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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.
- Ivar Giaever
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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.
- Roger Penrose
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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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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
- Olga Kurylenko
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I don't like writing essays or theory.
- Adrian Mitchell
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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.
- George Oppen
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
- Benito Mussolini
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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
- Richard Ford
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One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.
- 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.
- 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.
- Edward Witten
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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.
- Douglas Sirk
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I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.
- David Axelrod
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I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
- Patti Davis
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The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.
- Marvin Ammori
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Life is so unlike theory.
- Anthony Trollope
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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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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.
- Trofim Lysenko
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