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.
Harry Frankfurt
TimeManTeachTheoryCenterUsed
I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.
Amos Lee
MusicKnowNeedAnythingTheory
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini
BeautifulPracticeDemocracyTheory
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.
Trofim Lysenko
IdeasEvolutionFaultTheoryExample
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
Walter Lang
EvolutionEverythingTheoryBeing
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
Robert Delaunay
ColorsFindMovementTheorySystem
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
Talcott Parsons
PersonHimReasonTheoryInvolved
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Rudolf Arnheim
GoodArtLanguageTalkSmellTheory
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
P. J. O'Rourke
PeopleBookMoralFirstTheoryRead
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
Martin Seligman
LifePlaceSatisfactionMoreTheory
I have this fringe theory that I've sort of stress-tested a little bit - the more polarising and popular a case is, the more likely an acquittal.
Martin Shkreli
MoreLittleTheoryFringeCaseSort
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
Manfred Eigen
WrongRightTheoryMayIrrelevant
I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.
Lisa Randall
KnowWillOutTheoryStartedEvery
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
Kate Bush
AgeKindPretendTheoryMentalJust
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Christopher Hampton
YouBadAdaptMoreAlwaysTheory
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen
BusinessYouRunAnythingTheory
Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.
Brian Greene
GreatLongTheoryStillEven
I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey
FamousYouMoreYearsLittleTheory
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
Antony Garrett Lisi
MindOutsideAfraidTheoryCapacity
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
Ali Smith
ArtDressedNowRenaissanceTheory
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
Peter R. Grant
ExplainTheoryFounderLikeHow
There aren't sufficient scientific facts to establish the theory of evolution, and it deals with the origins of man, which is more from a philosophical standpoint than a scientific standpoint.
Scott Pruitt
ManFactsEvolutionMoreTheory
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
Tim Robbins
RelationshipSexyTheorySomething
Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
Richard K. Morgan
BehaviorUnderstandingNormalTheory
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