“I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.” PeopleCareInterestingTheoryBattlePercentAgreeRageTinyRadicalMost InterestingTheorists Author:John Waters
“I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.” PeopleThinkingTogetherLife IsBitsInterestingTheoryOkayClique Author:Jarvis Cocker
“My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.” WorldDreamFunInterestingLevelsTheoryDramaFemaleOperationsConspiracySpyHigh LevelConspiracy TheoryCovertBourne Author:Ali Larter
“I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book - one of these rare books I wish had been even longer. It's about how Darwin 's theory - supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus - led to the murder of millions of innocent people.” PeopleMenBookReadingWishWhiteInterestingMillionsTheoryMurderInnocentVery InterestingSantaBeardSanta ClausPrepsBook CoversInteresting Book Author:Ben Stein
“At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended. One will not get anywhere in graph theory by sitting in an armchair and trying to understand graphs better. Neither is it particularly necessary to read much of the literature before tackling a problem: it is of course helpful to be aware of some of the most important techniques, but the interesting problems tend to be open precisely because the established techniques cannot easily be applied.” TryingImportantEndsProblemCoursesLiteratureInterestingExampleObjectsTheorySittingMathematicsTechniqueHelpfulSpectrumTacklingArmchairsGraphs Author:Timothy Gowers
“Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.” PeopleThinkingReasonCareBeautifulSimpleInterestingTheoryPersonalityEvolutionRosePlantDon't CareI Don't CareSurroundingsAdaptedIllustrationVery BeautifulTheory Of EvolutionCactusPlant LifeInteresting Personalities Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.” ThinkingWritingYearsKindBookDifferentFeelingsAgeUsedNightCultureChallengesMy OwnInterestingResultsPracticeMiddleTheoryWesternChineseAncestorSurprisingAsianFarmingMiddle AgesRicePeasantsReally InterestingWestern Culture Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don't feel you're going to change a grownup's mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It's also not a textbook.” PeopleFeelsYearsMindIdeasStoriesReadingInterestingTheoryAspectExposedCompellingTextbooksGrownupsPersonal Stories Author:Bill Nye
“It 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.” WayBornInterestingTheory1960sCountrysideCottages Author:Richard Rogers
“You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.” ThinkingKnowsMeanWholeCharacterSeemsChristianAmericaSpiritualSpiritualityTermInterestingIssuesTeachingMiddleTheoryContemporaryEducatedCellsStemFundamentalismEasternStem Cell Author:Rachel Weisz
“Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.” ThinkingWayLiteratureInterestingWonderfulTheoryExerciseCriticismConnections Author:T.C. Boyle
“I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Aside from the science aspect of it, the philosophical possibilities are so interesting.” I CanReadingBitsInterestingBrainPossibilityTheoryMajorsAspectPhilosophicalNeuroscienceGeekDiscussingEnglish MajorBrain Science Author:William Mapother
“The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.” PeopleYearsMovingUniverseThreeFatherStarsInterestingNumbersFiguresSonTheoryHolyShapesNotionGhostCyclesHistorianMysticalHoly GhostArthur Author:Marianne Williamson
“What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in order to stop bad acting." I heard her say that. Now that's brilliant.” WellsSaidCareOrderInterestingActingHeardTheoryBrilliantWho CaresVery InterestingAlienationBrechtBad Acting Author:John Hurt