#theory

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#characteristics #evolution #humans #inconsistent #mental

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#classes #difficulty #economic #find #interests

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#important #know #more #much #scientist

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#comics #down #i #lot #other

My teacher, Ben Johnston, was convinced that our tuning is responsible for much of our cultural psychology, the fact that we are so geared toward progress and action and violence and so little attuned to introspection, contentment, and acquiescence. Equal temperament could be described as the musical equivalent to eating a lot of red meat and processed sugars and watching violent action films. The music doesn't turn your attention inward, it makes you want to go out and work off your nervous energy on something. ↗

— Kyle Gann

#just-intonation #music #music-theory #equality

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#anything #culture #his #influence #media

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people... ↗

— T. Rafael Cimino

#greed #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #political-commentary #political-philosophy

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#experienced #extreme #first #however #i

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#among #art #artists #best #contrary

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#bar #find #girl #i #marry