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They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.
Dwight Schultz
Big
Other
Says
Ours
Direction
Outward
Another
Big Bang
Discovered
Bang
Going
Where
Galaxies
Moving
Theory
Now
My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
Dylan McDermott
Everywhere
About
Dates
Walking
Theory
Actor
Milk
My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
E. L. Doctorow
Feeling
Own
Worst
Worst Thing
About
Voice
Point
Write
Writer
He
Reached
Himself
Without
His
Repeating
Heard
Where
Happen
Theory
Hemingway
Why
Thing
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
E. O. Wilson
Natural
Mind
Evolution
Religious
Reconciliation
Selection
Between
Course
Traditional
Human
Natural Selection
View
Human Mind
Theory
Origin
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
E. O. Wilson
Time
Harvard
Colleagues
Altruism
Mathematician
Which
Theory
Origin
Reigning
Two
I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
Ed Stoppard
Love
Family
Character
Control
Rich
Difficulties
Chaos
Characters
Pretty
Tend
Toward
Exploring
Theory
Who
Population
Gravitate
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
Edd Roush
Good
Myth
Too
Good Ones
Some
Wrong
Calling
However
Hitting
Place
Theory
Whole
For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
Eddie Redmayne
Saying
People
Opportunity
Down
Everything
Got
Been
Very
Role
List
Quite
Low
Theory
Lucky
Actor
Consequence
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.
Eddie Van Halen
You
Other
Piano
Instrument
Learn
Read
How
Go
Any
Your
Theory
Start
Universal
Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.
Edward Witten
Physics
String
String Theory
Out
Brought
More
Uncertainty
Point
Particle
Principle
Because
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Does
Spread
Replaced
Unexpected
Which
Again
Theory
Mechanics
So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.
Edward Witten
Me
You
String
String Theory
Tell
Some
Likely
Parts
How
Tested
Happen
Might
Ask
Theory
The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.
Edward Witten
Time
Three
Extra
Dimensions
Plus
Small
Observed
Beyond
Been
Ordinary
Spatial
Theory
Sufficiently
Four
Interpreted
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
Edward Witten
History
Change
Long
Unlike
Possible
Classical
Long History
Quantum
Einstein
Might
Theory
Gravity
Speculation
On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined.
Edward Witten
Too
Other
Defined
Dimensions
Concept
Because
Understand
Hand
Very
Precisely
Theory
There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.
Elizabeth Joan Smith
Life
Value
Practice
High
Gulf
Put
Between
American
Theory
The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.
Emile Durkheim
Knowledge
Made
Other
Distinct
Layers
Proposition
Like
Sort
Another
Reduced
Up
Cannot
Which
Theory
Elements
Fundamental
Two
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.
Emily Oster
People
Big
Economic
Consumption
Economic Theory
Lot
Should
Engage
Theory
I've never been one for color theory or color wheels or undertone rules or anything like that. I don't know if my red lipstick 'should' be more blue or more orange.
Emily Weiss
Rules
More
Color
Never
Red
Red Lipstick
Like
Know
Been
Lipstick
Orange
Blue
Wheels
Anything
Should
Theory
My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.
Eric Fellner
Cinema
Simple
Will
Long
Ways
TV
See
Ten
Only
Ten Years
Through
Computer
Know
How
Years
End
Five
Going
Screen
Movie
Story
Either
Your
Theory
Two
The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.
Eric Maskin
Thought
Engineering
Design
Side
Economic
Economic Theory
Theory
Mechanism
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
Eric Whitacre
Music
Think
Complex
Frankly
Write
Never
Terms
Sounds
Theory
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Ernst Mayr
Change
Claim
Claimed
Evolutionary
Rapid
Small
Major
Geneticist
Most
Does
Occur
Theory
Novelty
Species
Founder
Widespread
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.
Erwin Schrodinger
Framework
Consistent
Atomic
Countless
Accepted
Quantum
Passed
Mathematical
Tests
Accurate
Successful
Theory
Description
Now
Phenomena
Universally
I took my teaching responsibilities very seriously... I taught some great courses: Legal history to feminist theory, courses in American mass culture... I love teaching - I mean really love it.
Eva Moskowitz
Love
Great
History
Legal
Culture
Seriously
Took
Responsibilities
Some
Mass
Courses
Feminist
Very
American
Taught
Mean
Really
Teaching
Theory
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.
Evan Parker
Free
Long
Sense
Solo
About
Could
Developed
Particular
Parts
How
Test
Were
Order
So-Called
Certain
Aspects
Theory
Elements
Playing
My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
Faith Ford
Future
You
Business
Comedy
Own
Someone
Scene
Like
Got
Brad
Hold
Really
Your
Theory
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