Theory Quotes

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

There’s a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.

Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.

Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

I think there are some things in music that work and don't work. That's learned from counterpoint and rhythm and theory, and they don't work if you don't want them to work.

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

The Big Bang Theory' has completely changed my life.

The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Gray is the color of all theory

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

Social Security was always supposed to be basically, in theory, an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else’s subconscious.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

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

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

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.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters. Where I come from my friends and family don't even know what they are. The only people that talk about hipsters are hipsters.

[on the theory of the firm] It is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a 'firm' whose product is 'utility.'