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Our kids will leave this school understanding evolutionary theory and creation theory and being able to work with both right through the science syllabus.

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'.

Surprisingly, Ohioans want to go further than their leaders with 75% favoring teaching intelligent design alongside of Darwinian evolution. Even after all the attacks on intelligent design by the dogmatic Darwin-only lobby, the public clearly wants to know more about the theory and make up their own minds.

Steve Moore had no control over the timing of the incident. This was our (legal) limitation period. We had two years from the date, according to our theory of the case.

That connection between evolutionary cosmology and the theory of objectivity that I was formulating pleased and excited me a lot.

That child was never abused by any member of this family. She was loved, she was given opportunities that people at the age of 90 sometimes don't experience. This all leads back to my theory of envy and jealousy.

My theory when I came in and took over the program was this was a state championship team. I'm certainly thrilled to be here and be in this position. But the ones who made this happen for me are the players.

My theory was that you are not given power for your own personal enrichment; you are entrusted with responsibility to represent the public; power is to be used, to be parceled out over time, so that when one's term expires it is all gone; one uses it to accomplish as much as possible.

My theory was that they all saw me do it and if Andy Mac could do it ...' Macdonald said.

My theory on return games is making the guy play as much as possible and if I get a short ball, I'm going to come in and make him pass me, ... But God, he hit a lot of winners and was playing really well. I had to track down a lot of balls.

My theory on him is that he's essentially still in Spring Training. He's behind, and he may have hit a little bit of that 'dead arm' phase. In general, he's throwing the ball better than he was when I saw him in January. It's consistent, he feels very good about it, his balance is good. It's a lot better than the films I've seen from last year.

My theory on him is he's essentially still in spring training. He's behind, and he's going through a bit of a dead-arm period, something like that.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

My theory is that this is not a time for timidity.

My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand.

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

My theory is simply that there is no way you should ever shut off the engine. I do play to win as much as I can, for my kids. We play to win. But I can't convince them - and I should be able to at this point - that you have to play 40 minutes to win. You can't go to sleep. You cannot go to sleep.

My theory is it doesn't have an effect if you train hard while you're trying to gain weight. If you're just gaining weight you'll come out all stiff.

My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.

My theory is God is not going to let me die that way. He's made it perfectly clear to me he's got bigger plans for me and that's not going to be the way he chooses to take me.

My theory is God is not going to let me die that way.

My theory is Americans are villagers, basically. We want the private space, the single-family house. But we want also the public space.

My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.

My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

My own theory is that Roman thinks of himself as Oliver Twist,

My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.

Looking at Microsoft's announcements recently you have to wonder what's going to happen to the corporate desktop. I have a theory that they are going to be under threat in the next three to five years.

Logic is only a theory liable for most of the mystery.

Like it or not, some people will be dragged, kicking and screaming, into this. In theory we would all get hands-on training sessions, but what's more likely to happen is you'll be lucky if you even get a half-day session.

I studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough... also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize the objective of a Ph.D. thesis with the other results.

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.

That was basically the end of that theory, but I did have my laptop with me. I also wanted to get away from the cleanup. There was a method to that madness.

That was our big theory when I was with Oakland. Run up the guy's pitch counts, 'cause then you get the starting pitcher out of the game in the fifth inning. You're making him throw 100 pitches and he's gone.

Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

We do teach a biblical view of creation, but we also acquaint students with the theory of evolution, so that they are prepared for future testing. We don't believe that evolution has been proven. We have students read scholarly work that raises questions.

We have a little different theory about when teams get runs on us. We like to keep it up tempo and tire teams out.

We've long held to the theory that the valuation gap between the U.S. and Europe would pay off for investors. But the very good times are over.

We know that you can only get avian flu from getting in contact with a chicken or a bird species with it. That's bad enough. We don't transfer it from one human to another, which is really bad! But from the infective agent's point of view, the virus' point of view, its going to say 'to be more adaptive, maybe I'll switch hosts, and I'll adapt to a system where humans are transferring to each other.' We wouldn't even have a concept of that or a worry of that without Darwin's theory of evolution.

Today the Supreme Court has unleashed a new era of legal uncertainty on America's innovators. The newly announced inducement theory of copyright liability will fuel a new generation of entertainment industry lawsuits against technology companies. Perhaps more important, the threat of legal costs may lead technology companies to modify their products to please Hollywood instead of consumers.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

We are delighted to participate with Stream Theory in capturing our share of the burgeoning online marketplace,

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

We practiced lots and lots of tasks, we were prepared to do a lot things that we'd never done before, and that theory was sort of tested on this, and that's sort of the whole idea of going into space. You don't really know what your challenges are going to be ahead of time, so you practice everything you can think of.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

The prosecutor's theory on this case has taken more evolutions than Darwin," said one of Lisa Holland's two attorneys, Andrew Abood.

We believe evolution should be taught as a scientific theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can't be questioned.

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

The best theory is inspired by practice.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

Very dangerous things, theories.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.‎

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

A good teacher offers practice , a bad one offers theories .

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer

Architecture theory is very interesting.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.

We only have theories about the biggest waves, because it's hard to get observations to quantify the theory.

This whole process is part economics, part bankruptcy law, part ideology and part game theory -- but 100 percent painful.

To that end, we must step up the Party building theory study in a way that is in line with the new historical conditions and historical tasks the CPC is facing.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

With a trustworthy computer model of combustion, engineers can design improved engines or fuel blends without needing to build and test so many different versions. The database of chemical reactions needed for such a computer program is too big to be filled in strictly with measured numbers, and we have to rely on chemical rate theory to calculate much of this database. Our experiments are important for showing how far we should trust these calculations.

The progress of the pure theory of social choice with an expanded informational base was, in this sense, quite crucial for my applied work as well.

We were doing it (adding intelligent design to the curriculum) for the students to give them an alternative scientific theory to go along with their biology class, ... We thought we were doing something good for them.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

The recent theory in home buying is that it might be foolish to pay that price for a home, but you can always find another fool who will pay more later.

Theory did a great work pant, and everyone was doing denim. But no one was making a trouser sexy, or the focus of an outfit... So, that's what I set out to do.

The original theory was Netburst would show increasing performance benefits with increasing frequency. It didn't work quite the way Intel had anticipated.