“Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.” GovernmentPoliticalLyingTheoryEgoAmbitionIraqAgendasVietnamPolitical Agendas Author:Donald Sutherland
“Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down.” IfsLyingGirlSituationOne ThingTheoryResponsibleDon't Lie Author:Lauren Barnholdt
“The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.” LyingChristianityTheoryRevelationsPlato Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.” MayLyingChanceViewsTeachingFieldsTheoryObviousPoint Of ViewPeculiarQuantumChances AreFashionable Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.” HardLyingCoursesAttitudeTheoryAbsolutesFollowingPhysicsHardestIdeologyConspiracyOriginalityProbabilityJuryConspiracy TheoryVerdictScience Physics Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.” SeemsTruthLyingForeverTheoryGoes OnTruth Is Book:Confessions of a sex kitten Source: Confessions of a sex kitten
“Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.” LyingGroupsTheoryMathematicsComplexesAnalysisEquationsAlgebraComputingDifferential Equations Author:Vladimir Arnold
“History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingHardStoriesSeemsLyingCertainEasyCasesOne ThingParticularTheoryCircumstancesProveUniqueEvidenceExpertise Author:Richard Lewontin
“I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.” WayWritingEndsWholeLyingTheoryPushingFlatsCarpetLumps Author:Bruce Joel Rubin