#heo

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music. ↗

— John Coltrane

#aspects #awakened #began #bird #dizzy

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. ↗

— David Deutsch

#common #common sense #make #more #only

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#branches #essential #features #methods #numbers

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#catholic #free #free will #gave #give

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

#being #irrelevant #may #model #only

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#actually #articles #behind #book #checked

...a useful coorective to the triumphalism of some scientists. For example, Maddox went out of his way to emphasise the provisional nature of much physics - he referred to black holes as 'putative' only, to the search for theories of everything as 'the embodiment of a belief, even a hope' and stated that the reason why the quantum gravity project is 'becalmed' right now is because 'the problem to be solved is not yet fully understood' and that the idea that the universe began with a Big Bang 'will be found to be false'. ↗

— Peter Watson

#theory-of-everything #beauty

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#feasible #financially #impossibility #may #technically