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It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.
Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.
Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.
If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
We don't have a solid theory of how the universe originated, but that doesn't mean we have to invoke a deity.
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.
My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.
The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.
I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.
There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.