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It appears to me that there is some possibility that someone is supplying money to be given to the Black campaign. If my theory is right, we're going to have to have somebody willing to tell us the truth.

I think it proves my theory that you just have to be physically and mentally tough as nails. That's been a problem for us. We've tried to address it, and we're going to address it from here on out.

I think it's being done much more systematically than it was done previously, ... In theory, they were doing it years ago. But the statewide tests have forced schools to do it much more systematically. And it's given a clearer direction of where schools should go.

I thought they might not be a good outside shooting team. But they proved that theory wrong. It's pick your poison with them.

Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

We are delighted to participate with Stream Theory in capturing our share of the burgeoning online marketplace,

We know that you can only get avian flu from getting in contact with a chicken or a bird species with it. That's bad enough. We don't transfer it from one human to another, which is really bad! But from the infective agent's point of view, the virus' point of view, its going to say 'to be more adaptive, maybe I'll switch hosts, and I'll adapt to a system where humans are transferring to each other.' We wouldn't even have a concept of that or a worry of that without Darwin's theory of evolution.

Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

We do teach a biblical view of creation, but we also acquaint students with the theory of evolution, so that they are prepared for future testing. We don't believe that evolution has been proven. We have students read scholarly work that raises questions.

We have a little different theory about when teams get runs on us. We like to keep it up tempo and tire teams out.

We've long held to the theory that the valuation gap between the U.S. and Europe would pay off for investors. But the very good times are over.

That was our big theory when I was with Oakland. Run up the guy's pitch counts, 'cause then you get the starting pitcher out of the game in the fifth inning. You're making him throw 100 pitches and he's gone.

That was basically the end of that theory, but I did have my laptop with me. I also wanted to get away from the cleanup. There was a method to that madness.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

The fact that most biology texts act more as cheerleaders for Darwin's theory rather than trying to develop the critical faculties of their students shows the need, I think, for such statements.

The problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the black hole -- protons, electrons, stars, planets, whatever -- and it would make no difference. There must be billions of ways to make a black hole, yet with the classical model the final state of the system is always the same.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

We hope to see more Tastefully Tackys down the road. I go by the theory of reciprocity - if we are accommodating to our customers, they will give us something back in return.

Topology and number theory are my faves.

We're going with the theory of working together as a team, they may be more willing to clean up, and we'd offer our help.

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.

To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.

Everybody has a theory.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Even theories must have foundations.

Observation always involves theory.

Observations always involve theory.

The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew Abood.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

We practiced lots and lots of tasks, we were prepared to do a lot things that we'd never done before, and that theory was sort of tested on this, and that's sort of the whole idea of going into space. You don't really know what your challenges are going to be ahead of time, so you practice everything you can think of.

We believe evolution should be taught as a scientific theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can't be questioned.

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

A good teacher offers practice , a bad one offers theories .

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

The best theory is inspired by practice.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.

Very dangerous things, theories.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.

We only have theories about the biggest waves, because it's hard to get observations to quantify the theory.

This whole process is part economics, part bankruptcy law, part ideology and part game theory -- but 100 percent painful.

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.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

To that end, we must step up the Party building theory study in a way that is in line with the new historical conditions and historical tasks the CPC is facing.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.

Would you agree that Darwin's theory is not the absolute truth?

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.