Theory Quotes - Page 6

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Mean, Guitar, Piano

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• There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you succeed in developing, you kick away the ladders so others can't do it too, and you preach about "free trade."

  Noam Chomsky

  Kicking, Phrases, Ladders

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Reading, Looks, Might

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Teaching, Rights

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

  J. J. Abrams

  Running

  "J.J. Abrams Talks Star Trek 2 in 3D" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

  Mortimer Adler

  Philosopher, Scientist, Found

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• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

  Hannah Arendt

  Plato, Believe, Teaching

  Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (2006). “Between Past and Future”, p.30, Penguin

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• People love conspiracy theories.

  Neil Armstrong

  People, Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theory

  "Neil Armstrong Opens Up In Rare Interview". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

  Russell Baker

  Wall, Journalism, Profit

  "Goodbye to Newspapers?". Article by Russell Baker, www.nybooks.com. August 16, 2007.

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• I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, People, Ridiculous

  "Dark Star". Interview with Phil Hoad, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2005.

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• I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

  Brian Greene

  Journey, Goal, Looks

  "Greene, With Curiosity" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Yesterday, Today

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• String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

  Brian Greene

  Space, Would Be, Bread

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• String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Reflection, Bangs

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

  Brian Greene

  Believe, Together, Mechanic

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

  Brian Greene

  Should, Partners, Quarks

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• The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Energy, Molecules

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• I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

  Lev Grossman

  Reading, Book, School

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• The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wise, Art, Men

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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

  Fun, Games, Guy

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• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Able, Principles

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Simple, May, Gains

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", p. 29, 1978.

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• Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ignorance, Giving, Facts

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• I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Guitar, Instruments

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• I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

  Amber Heard

  Thinking, Pills, Amber

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