“There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.” BlackWhiteConditionsTheoryPhotographBurdenPetBlack And WhiteIrrelevantTrivia Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye
“I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.” FirstsLittlesStillsI CanFactsSeemsFacesCertainAsksMoralPositionTheoryEvolutionConsequenceRegardConservativeExplanationPhenomenonIrrelevantTheory Of Evolution Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.” TheoryUnderstoodPhenomenonIrrelevantExplainingObjectivityHallucinationsScientific Theory Book:The Self-Aware Universe Source: The Self-Aware Universe
“Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.” KindMadeDoneBitsInterestTheoryActivityDiscoveryConsequenceIncludingComposerIrrelevantComposing Author:George Perle
“The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.” WellsPoliticalPrinciplesTakenTheoryIrrelevantInterventionImplicationsPartisansExcludedPolitical Theory Author:Raymond Geuss
“I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?” KnowsKindFilmLanguageStudyTheoryDegreesMajorsYeahPostsGreekPrizeLatinIrrelevant Author:Robert Greene