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.
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
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.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened.
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.
The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
