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“I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.”

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Author:Joanna Newsom

“I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.”

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Author:George Benson

“Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.”

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Author:R. D. Laing

“The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.”

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Book:Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

Source: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them”

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Author:Bruno Latour

“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.”

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Author:Isabel Briggs Myers

“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.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws. Experiment and Theory in Physics”

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Author:Max Born

“I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.”

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Author:Hunter Hayes

“I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.”

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Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.”

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Author:Fabiola Gianotti