The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.
I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television - all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that.
Dignam: My theory on Feds is that they're like mushrooms, feed 'em shit and keep 'em in the dark
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
