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Research supports a specific theory depending on the amount of funds dedicated to it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about research

Nobody knows whose fault it is that the story isn't moving, but everyone has a different theory.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, it seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

Quote by George Oppen about pointless, old, olderness, people

If a melody sounds familiar, I know enough musical theory to head to another place.

Quote by Brad Paisley about music, heads

What distinguishes libertarianism from other views of political morality is principally its theory of enforceable obligations.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics, morality

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Quote by Evan Parker about tests, order, common sense, sense

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about reason, word, people

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about science, consequences, knowledge, change

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about circumstances

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure...

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution, knowledge

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about knowledge, common sense, sense, life

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

Quote by Roger Penrose about opinion, contentment

Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about creation, night, being, contentment

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

Quote by James Prescott Joule about power, destruction, force, police, god

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

Quote by James Tobin about economy, revolution

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Quote by Benito Mussolini about democracy

According to the quantic theory of gravitation, even the mystic god keeps being fascinated by the mystery of creation, as 'the thing entered in itself', in the power of imagination.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity