#theories

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#keep #making #necessary #open #out

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

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bludgeon #digests #facts #magazines #newspapers

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

#began #call #ear #essentially #extremely

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#brought #creative #evolution #existence #into

Theories pass. The frog remains. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#pass #remains #theories

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#lot #shakespeare #theories

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again. ↗

— Karl Popper

#alive #flawed #good #guess #kill

I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#about #because #belief #claim #going