Theorising

Here I am speaking from personal experience in challenging that recruitment, not theorising from a safe distance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some time after the appearance of this article, Wallace was informed by his friend and agent, Mr. Stevens, that several naturalists had expressed regret that he was "theorising," when what "was wanted was to collect more facts." ❋ James Marchant (N/A)

‘True, in a way, sir, but we have to establish actual facts before our imagination (which is to say our theorising) is allowed to come into play. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- (1982)

At the moment, I'm theorising a scenario akin to Rise of the Cyberman, where the Doctor gave ten years of his life to bring the TARDIS back to life. ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

The list is all too drearily predictable – surely critics like W. W.Robson and Christopher Ricks are infinitely superior in sensitivity, originality and intelligence than the dreary theorising of Lodge, Eagleton, Barthes, Culler et al. + why the ignorance about the great late Victorians and Edwardians – e.g Edward Dowden [Studies of Literature] What about Livingston Lowes on Coleridge and John Press? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Normative theorising about outsourcing the responsibility to protect is therefore futile and takes us away from serious discussions about realistic improvements that could be made to the agents and mechanisms of humanitarian intervention. ❋ David Isenberg (2011)

In Islam, all speaking or theorising about the nature of Allah is mere zannah, fanciful ­guesswork. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

See also "mind games", a phrase which might once have denoted the complex game theorising of the cold war, or that bit in The Twits where all their furniture is glued to the ceiling so that the couple believe themselves to be upside down. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think this is classic Muse; a bit overwrought, underpinned by slighly wonky conspiracy theorising, but yet you can't help but be carried away by it. ❋ Paul MacInnes (2010)

Both are accomplished and innovative stand-ups in their own right: Wozniak specialises in bizarre theorising and far-fetched storytelling, while Paker offers a sort of highbrow whimsy, like Eddie Izzard but with something of the Open University prof. ❋ Unknown (2011)

One company I saw – about to market ultra-fast DNA sequencing to create the most powerful health diagnostic tool ever invented – grew out of one scientist's abstract theorising 30 years ago. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They prefer a more “scientific” approach to research, such as number-crunching or abstract theorising. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One is that Beck's dense conspiracy theorising makes for terrible television. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In this new audio release he covers a lot of eclectic ground, from lowbrow staples like fatherhood and knob gags to more out-there ideas – at times you'll find him veering from exploring the inanity of Jennifer Aniston romcoms to theorising about the superpowers of Jesus. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For reasons that help the writing of this column, the soundtrack to this novel/hallucination would be best supplied by Prince, himself currently mucking around with reality and his possible mysterious connection to it in ways that mix up the Ballardian with splashes of obsessive Gaga narcissism, madcap McLuhan theorising, larky Russell Brand lunacy and teasing Dylan masking. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet he has shown himself here to be sloppy with facts and prone to wild conspiracy theorising. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In terms of the Audiard film, he admits, such theorising is explicable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, all this speculation and theorising would be blown into oblivion if the music was as annihilating as people have been saying. ❋ Unknown (2010)