#theory

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#colors #does #essence #find #i

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#hart #i #i think #jazz #knowledge

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#history #life #nothing #read #theory

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. ↗

— David Eddings

#fiction #general #hesitate #i #mankind

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#collapse #deepest #found #give #hope

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#case #comprehensive #could #destiny #fairer

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention spans #coming #dominant #getting #hollywood

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#another #cancel #drives #every #expert