“Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.” PeopleWantGivingFilmPurposeCoursesLanguageTeachTeachingStudentsTheoryTasteRewardsDefinitionsAcademicIncapableLiteracyOccultArcaneFilm Students Author:Roger Ebert
“Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one.” ThinkingFactsTheoryFitDefinitionsDataExplanationLogicalAstrologyInferenceHistory Of ScienceScientific Theory Author:Michael Behe
“I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.” PersonsI CanProcessCreativeTheoryIntellectualDefinitionsCreative ProcessCreative Person Author:Mary Pratt
“The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality.” ReligionUniverseCausesDivineTheoryDefinitionsLogicalRequirementsInconsistentThesisCausality Author:Quentin Smith
“Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.” UniverseForceBlackSpacePerfectObjectsTheoryElementsConceptsDefinitionsHolesVarietyConstructionContrastTime And SpaceBlack HoleApproximation Author:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
“The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat, a young author writing his first novel; all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative.” WritingFirstsChildrenActionYoungOrderGamesTermNovelCreativeTheoryDefinitionsMeatInventingRelativitySauceHousewifeTheories Of RelativityDevising Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy