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We find no empirical or conceptual reason whatsoever to think of intelligent design theory as genuine science.

To keep it out is anti-education. ... You can't just tell children that they come from monkeys and to forget all about any other theory for how life began and the incredible design of the universe and the human body.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

You have a perfect right to use your imagination as you will in developing the principles, but the fundamental scientific theory must be correct.

What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum

We went beyond the perimeter where we saw rats and worked back to the garden. The theory was that we were herding rats back to the garden and didn't want them crossing Oak Manor Drive and going into the neighborhood. I think we took all of the precautions we could and had a lot of experts helping us deal with the situation,

Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.

We think our theory will provide some guidance to help engineers avoid the problem.

We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

Both inside and outside the classroom, he's really genuinely concerned about both theoretical and practical issues. That's another thing that's distinctive. He's really able to join theory and practice and that is often a rare quality.

Bonds are well bid on the theory that this will slow down the U.S. economy,

Bleep theory belongs in philosophy, not a science class. But I think it does have enough merit to be a topic of conversation somewhere other than the backwoods and closets.

Assuming that it holds up -- and I believe it will -- this is a theory that both greatly clarifies the way that most stars in the universe probably form, and also ties the properties of the solar system and Earth itself back to the conditions in the larger astrophysical environment in which we formed.

At the end of the day my theory is that not every mobile customer will become a 3G customer.

Computer graphics programs enabled us to visualize these surfaces, but we couldn't bring them back into the mathematical fold. I think the information about how to solve this problem was lurking in the pictures all the time, but we just had to think about it for a long time and have the theory catch up with the evidence we had.

Dinosaurs are very popular, and the asteroid theory is sexy, it's a perfect story, and in the past few years it's all you've read in the popular press.

could be based on a legally insufficient theory of law.

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

Each game will be very closely fought. All of us are at the cutting edge of theory and I am sure you will face top class preparation in each game. I just expect a very tough event.

Even if an application isn't tuned and tweaked to take advantage of Windows 2000, it should in theory run faster on Windows 2000 and be more reliable on a more reliable platform. For a lot of companies, that'll be enough to swap out NT and go to Windows 2000.

Everything we know in biology agrees with Darwin's theory of evolution in a broad sense, and the theory is tested probably 1000 times a day in various laboratories without anyone going out to test it. They (the American-funded movement to foist intelligent design teaching onto science teachers in Australia) really want a science teacher who may well be atheistic anyway, introducing the concept of God into science. It's a ridiculous idea and has no place in science teaching.

There's no smoking gun or leading theory coming out about what might have triggered this.

It would misrepresent the importance of the theory of evolution to our students.

The whole theory of the new law is to see how to improve people's ability to repay creditors. There's got to be a balance between relieving debt and allowing creditors to collect.

The way I see it, there are three types of studies in science: one that moves a theory along, one that closes it and another that opens a new door altogether. This one opens a new chapter, introducing an entirely new molecular candidate for the study of anxiety, and we're going to be hearing a lot about it in the next 10 years.

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

It was very important that some of us stepped up tonight. If you stick to the systems, you can beat any team in this league. My theory is they shut it down in the second period.

The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity theory through very precise measurements of this star's short period orbit.

The standard theory may survive as a part of the ultimate theory, or it may turn out to be fundamentally wrong. In either case, it will have been an important way-station, and the next theory will have to be better.

The second time around, we will be less theory and more practice, focusing a bit more on the actual hands-on writing experience.

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

The technical challenges were solved in theory but not in practice.

The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.

The theory that autism is the extreme of the male brain is not strongly supported by these data,

The theory on my part is to read; reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors: old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. ..Think about it and find something to talk about.

The theory of the flat tax is a lot more appealing then the reality. We would have serious concerns that a flat tax imposed strictly on the District would be neither fair nor progressive. However, we've worked closely and well with Sen. Brownback in the past and hope to do so in the future.

The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas.

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

The theory is, you're there to save a life,

The theory is that with rate increases, it doesn't effect the 'new economy' stocks.

The theory is that the hard disc doesn't have to run all the time. Flash-based cache can reduce the number of reads to the hard disc and eliminate a lot of writes.

The theory is that predators ... are looking for places where they can have quick and easy access to children.

The theory is that Mariah Carey can sing anything. You hear that expression, 'She can sing the phone book.' So if you can really sing, you should be able to sing anything, so we're testing them. That's the whole competition.

The theory is that her owner was either a truck driver or owns a diesel car.

The theory is that a thief won't spend the time or the money to replace the window.

The theory behind these medications is that they are hoping for stabilization, so when we see actual improvement, it's kind of a breakthrough.

The theory behind the program was it would catch people who dropped their insurance after renewing their registration. In reality, we were suspending people for not sending in proof of insurance even if they had it. There was no other way of knowing if they were insured or not.

The theory behind the paper is that actual chewing stimulates a neuronal and hormonal reflex that helps to awaken the gut. Certainly, there's a great deal of appeal to that theory.

The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cognitive reserve, maybe a larger number of brain cells or more efficient brain systems or networks. These people with higher education have more redundancy or reserve so they can cope if part of the brain is destroyed.

The theory and practice of gamesmanship orThe art of winning games without actually cheating.

I've never bought into the theory of you have to have a ton of experience to get it done.

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

Probably the theory of most people that have played the game is they'll go as long as they can until they have, A, a career-ending injury or, B, too old and they've been doing it long enough and the fire has gone out. I still have a passion for it.

Our theory was that if we could somehow stimulate the digestive system to 'wake up' a little bit sooner, we could get them out of the hospital a little bit sooner." ()

Our theory was get Eck in the game. You knew the game was over.

Our theory is if it's not broke, don't fix it.

Our theory in the Internet is buy the street, not the store, ... We'd rather own the street instead of just an individual store on the street. And Earthlink certainly fits that bill. And again, relative to the other stocks, it's the cheapest in the group.

After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory as a systematic theory started with von Neumann and Morgenstern's book, 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,' published in 1944.

The multiple-origins theory was based in part on the broad distribution of potatoes from north to south across many different habitats, through morphological resemblance of different wild species to cultivated species, and through other data. Our DNA data, however, shows that in fact all cultivated potatoes can be traced back to a single origin in southern Peru.

The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself.

String theory came out of here. Black holes came out of here. This is a real wellspring for discoveries in theoretical physics.

So the theory asks, how can shareholders ascertain what the firm's real prospects are when they have less information, ... It's a pervasive aspect of modern economies.

Coincidences are what are left over after you've applied a bad theory.

Depending on who you talk to out in that area, everyone seems to have a different theory.

Anyone can be on their best behavior for an hour. Theory is, the more time you spend with someone the better the opportunity that you'll catch them saying something alarming.

As far as different bells and whistles that we offered, there wasn't anything tremendous that stood out. In theory, in the future we could feed multiple camera angles online and people could direct their own launch, which would be nice.

Bach lived in a moment of synthesis, in terms of the instruments, the theory - tempered scale, etc. - and was putting everything together.

A thousand opinions by a court that a particular scientific theory is invalid will not make that scientific theory invalid. It is going to be up to the scientists who are going to continue to do research in their labs that will ultimately determine that.

That's when I began to understand what a chord is. So I learned theory to find a shorter method to take things off a record.

Alas! though I know in theory what a Christian should be--I am still sadly deficient in practice! I am a poor creature, and see much to be ashamed of every day, and in every circumstance. Yet, though sin will distress--it cannot condemn, those who believe in Jesus!

The modern physicist is a quantum theorist on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and a student of gravitational relativity theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On Sunday he is praying. . . that someone will find the reconciliation between the two views.

This is a revolutionary way to learn because you're not just reading, you're hearing people talk to you. It's theoretical poker reinforced by practical play. We teach a theory and go in and talk about strategy. You learn by example. That's the uniqueness or advantage we provide.

This is the first really good demonstration that the theory works on something like a star cluster.

This is a bubble, plain and simple. Every bubble has a theory about itself and every bubble bursts. There's never been an exception.

They told me I should be a music major. I was really intimidated. I had been taking piano lessons since I was 7, but I was worried because there is all this theory training.

They say it's going to be a long rehab process, but my theory was always to stay positive and the rehab is going to go a lot better and you'll be able to get through it.

Although there has been solid theory on the matter for quite some time, these results provide the first definitive proof at the molecular level that sexual reproduction magnifies the efficiency of natural selection in eliminating deleterious mutations from populations.

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

This poll shows widespread support for the idea that when biology teachers teach Darwin's theory of evolution they should present the scientific evidence that supports it as well as the evidence against it.

There was no rational reason why monkeys might prefer one of these options over the other because, according to the theory of expected value, they're identical.

There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass. The theory that new technology results in error seems to be borne out early in the process.

The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

This is the old armchair quarterback theory. Everybody thinks they can be a better coach, a better general manager, a better owner.

There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.

There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.

The REIT market is liquid, there are low transaction costs in terms of getting in and out, and you avoid the maintenance headaches of ownership (while maintaining exposure to an asset class) that could perform well in theory should inflation go up.

A theory may be viewed rather broadly as a statement purporting to describe, or to explain, or to help one to understand a phenomenon. More narrowly, a theory may present a claim of truth, or assert the presence of relationships between phenomena, or predict the occurrence of phenomena.

A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant.

At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.

Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.

All of us have a theory about human nature.

All our calculations were based on the theory that, if Madrid made it through to the final round, then we might have a tough time winning but that, if it was Paris v London, then we had a really excellent chance.

It was serious enough from our perspective ... a credible enough theory that at least we ought to tell folks we are mindful of it and that you ought to be mindful of it out there as well,

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

It's a weekend course. It's usually a Friday night, all-day Saturday and half-day Sunday deal. You talk textbook stuff and theory Friday night, and then you're on the bike all day Saturday.

It's a cluster theory of development. We bring our top players together and put them in an environment with all the necessary resources to excel.

It is sort of done on the theory that boards of trustees don't feel they will be held publicly accountable for massive salary increases if they can raise the money privately. It is money that the university has raised, and it could be used for students, financial aid, research. The notion that this is not really public money... isn't right.