“ Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. ”
- John Wilmot- Copy
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“ Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. ”
- Niels Bohr- Copy
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“ The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. ”
- John Rawls- Copy
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“ Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis, best suited to open the way, to the next better one. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
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“ In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ”
- Yogi Berra- Copy
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“ Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. ”
- John B. S. Haldane- Copy
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“ It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. ”
- Saul Kripke- Copy
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“ Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts. ”
- David Merzel- Copy
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“ To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. ”
- Fontenelle- Copy
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“ Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
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“ The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ”
- Mark Russell- Copy
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“ It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory. ”
- Samuel McChord Crothers- Copy
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“ A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. ”
- Ruth Hubbard- Copy
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“ Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience. ”
- Paul Feyerabend- Copy
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