Theory Quotes

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins

Write, Getting, Themselves

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
Sebastian Junger

Life, Insult, Act

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
Michael Behe

Work, Science, Dead

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
Christopher Hampton

True, Important, Unless

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Christopher Hampton

Successful, Bad, Books

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.
Charlie Hunnam

Home, History, Experience

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.
Dwight Schultz

Moving, Big, Another

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
Margaret Mahy

Work, Simple, Night

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
Vanessa Carlton

Time, Mom, Give

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos

Crime, Commitment, Blind

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

Different, Picture, Physical

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
Francis Parker Yockey

Politics, True, Aim

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.
Francis Parker Yockey

History, Political, Find

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
Roland Allen

Men, Spiritual, Fact

If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.
Edward Witten

Nature, Hope, Big

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

Happen, Tell, Might

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

Nature, Thinking, Point

Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.
Edward Witten

Big, Ability, Along

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

Time, Small, Three

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
Edward Witten

Change, History, Long

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

Understand, Hand, Concept

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Richard Ford

Heart, Sense, Stories

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.
Tom T. Hall

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Lionel Hampton

Learning, Hard, Growing

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
Joanna Newsom

Good, Down, Voice

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.
Frank Black

Music, Easy, Rules

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
Dave Van Ronk

Truth, Seen, Coming

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Sidney Altman

Time, Power, Book

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
Cristina Saralegui

Life, American, Idea

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.
Ivan Reitman

Time, Reality, Sense

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