The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.