Though people often picture science as a collection of clever theories, scientists are generally staunch pragmatists: to scientists, a good theory is one that inspires new experiments and provides unexpected insights into familiar phenomena.
It's as if Peyton had recalled Hockney to order, after his questionable forays into neocubism and clever theories of optics, reminding him that his innate gift for decorative charm is what we crave from him, unadulterated by great-artist longueurs.
All very clever in theory but incredibly clunky and banal in reality.
But clever postmodern theories of meaning aside, it is a brute tragedy with no redeeming features that philistine attitudes of the kind expressed by that graffitist led to House being demolished, and Britain losing a great work of art.
To get a foot in the door, he jokes, the mobile Internet needs a clever-sounding theory to justify it, such as "total cost of ownership" (which encouraged firms to centralise their computing systems) or "just-in-time ordering" (which encouraged them to adopt fancy inventory-management systems).At the same time, there is the danger of overhyping the technology, as happened with WAP.
I'm not sure whether this theory, clever as it is, satisfies Karl Popper's falsifiability criterion.
The proof uses a clever relationship between information theory and estimation theory in the Gaussian channel that can be extended to other types of MIMO channels.
The foreign-policy heavyweights of the administration are sinking in the sands of Iraq and clever neo-conservative theories are no longer in vogue; but the economic plodders suddenly have good news to tell.
You can come up with all the clever and compelling theories you want, but data gathered from experiments are and will always be the ultimate arbiters of truth.
This is a significant increase, but it is hardly "remarkable".... Greenspan's theory is clever, but it doesn't fit all the facts.
