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  Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Jumping, Evolution, Building

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• Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rivals, Favors, Justified

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• I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

  Anton Yelchin

  Reading, Trying, Admire

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• Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Men, Talking

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• Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that God invented us think that the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. So I guess it’s a question of belief. My belief system doesn’t support a creator as such, as we can call God, who created us in His/Her/Its image.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Morgan Freeman on Inventing God, Aliens Eating Us and His Survival Odds in ‘Dark Knight Rises’". Interview with Tim Molloy, www.thewrap.com. June 7, 2012.

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• You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Hell, Accepting, Accept Me

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• There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.

  Howard Zinn

  Dream, Artist, Ideas

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.339, Routledge

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• In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

  Robert Shaw

  May, Vengeance, Lord

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• String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?

  Willie Garson

  Long, Mechanic, Length

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• My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

  Dylan McDermott

  Actors, Milk, Walking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

  Asa Butterfield

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2012

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• When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  Jeff Foxworthy (2004). “No Shirt, No Shoes...No Problem!”, Hyperion

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• Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and all the matter we know today. I know that sounds crazy, but there’s strong observational evidence to support the Big Bang theory. And it includes the amount of helium in the cosmos and the glow of radio waves left over from the explosion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Crazy, Space

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• I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

  Emmy Rossum

  Acting, Different, Balls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not every conspiracy is a theory.

  James Badge Dale

  Conspiracy

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• What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

  Rick Santorum

  Teaching, Thinking, Views

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Cooking, Special

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

  Quincy Jones

  Class, Play, Peers

  The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org.

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• I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Needs, Lines

  "Science Watch", September 1994.

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• If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

  Stephen Hawking

  Challenges, Intellectual, Would Be

  "Creative Art Video – Pink Terror With Stephen Hawking". Interview with Mike Barzman and Christian Swegal, www.arttherapyblog.com. March 30, 2010.

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• I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Theory Of Evolution, Accepting

  "Ron Paul: I don't accept the theory of evolution", www.cbsnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.

  Bill Maher

  America, Umbilical Cord, Hey

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• Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

  Joseph Stalin

  Philosophical, World, Materialism

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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• Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Democracy, Deceitful

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• Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

  Hyman Minsky

  Giving, Needs, Normal

  Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional

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