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.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
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.
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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.
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
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.
