#theories

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#conduct #fact #his #man #regards

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

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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. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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I have no useful theories about love and marriage. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#consider #facts #may #out #position

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#acting #been #different #drama #drama school

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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