What worries me is that people will take this as fact. I`m not angry, per se, that it refutes everything I hold sacred, the foundations of my beliefs. The Da Vinci Code (2006) is an admitted work of fiction but it cleverly weaves fact into maverick theories in a way that will appear plausible to some.
- Mel GibsonI try to work with people who are better than me. I for a long time considered myself a journeyman actor where I was learning my skills and honing my craft and waiting for the opportunity for something like this (The Punisher (2004)) to come along. I`m not good at vocalizing what my exact approach is, but I believe in using whatever works and making a sort of amalgamation of a number of different styles or methods to get the job done. I think that`s what a lot of film acting is about. It`s sort of a mongrel like approach these days. We use a number of different theories or beliefs to get you where you need to go. It`s a personal experience. I don`t believe in one particular system or method or another. - On his approach to acting.
- Thomas JaneThe only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
- Joe Rogan(opon seeing Sigmund Freud`s therapy couch) It was a very tiny little thing. All his theories were based on the analysis of very short people!
- Billy WilderIn making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
- Bela LugosiThe past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.
- Igor StravinskyThis is ... a stunning admission that the current theories do not explain it, and it has not refuted the idea that things are the product of intelligent cause.
- John WestSure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
- Tony SnowIt is sad that Mr. Hamilton resorted to conspiracy theories rather than just accept the consequences of his doping.
- Terry MaddenIt is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.
- Michio KakuThere are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness.
- Michio KakuThe law is the law, and you are here to enforce the law. There are two competing theories of reality here as to what happened ... This is an odd situation. It`s not a murder situation.
- Mike RamseyBefore I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- John WilmotMuch of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
- Thomas SowellSome of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard`s latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.
- Kim CampbellTheories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
- Abraham DiskinWe have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.
- Adrian KurreAs a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
- Agnes MattoxOther psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
- Ajay MangalGenetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
- Ajay MangalWhile there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
- Alan PardeeOne thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.
- Alan ReiterThings are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
- Alan RosenThe overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
- Alan RotatoriThe truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
- Alan RotatoriOur best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
- Alan RotatoriHow 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.
- Alan SaportaTheories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
- Albert DunlapA people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
- Alderman Dana McLendonThe Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
- Alexander AlexeyevFrom whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
- Alice RaineWhile there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
- Allan BristowAnd now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
- Allard BairdGood tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
- Allen HornthalEvery 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.
- Amanda CruzIt is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
- Ana ChapmanEvolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.
- André GlucksmannI think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there`s a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.
- André GlucksmannIt is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone`s moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
- Andreas GrossThe temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
- Andy Beenbecause they expand the information presented to students about biological and chemical evolution by including some of the scientific criticisms of these theories.
- Andy FryeThere is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
- Ashley ReynoldsThere is a hardcore rump within the British Muslim community that didn`t actually believe somehow that Sidique and his cohorts were responsible. Rampant conspiracy theories mushroomed out of control.
- Barbara ClarkThere are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
- Bennie SellersOrganization doesn`t really accomplish anything. Plans don`t accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don`t much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
- Colin PowellA work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
- Alexander PopeThe society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. GardnerOur theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
- Buddha