Famous Quotes - Tags - Theory

  • A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not... More
  • A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our... More
  • A law explains a set of observations; a theory explains a set of laws. The quintessential... More
  • A theory if you hold it hard enough
    And long enough gets rated as a creed.... More
  • Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in... More
  • Don’t confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the... More
  • Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act... More
  • Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. More
  • Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in... More
  • Gray, dear friend, is all theory,
    But green the golden tree of life. More
  • In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as... More
  • It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. More
  • It is not enough for theory to describe and analyse, it must itself be an event in the universe... More
  • It makes no sense to say what the objects of a theory are,
    beyond saying how to interpret or... More
  • Let us work without theorizing, ‘tis the only way to make life endurable. More
  • Mr. Etzler is not one of the enlightened practical men, the pioneers of the actual, who move with... More
  • No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on... More
  • One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. More
  • Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a... More
  • The acceptance of a theory as true does involve a personal choice in a way that a law does not.... More
  • The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. More
  • The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness... More
  • The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual... More
  • The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a... More
  • The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards... More
  • The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but... More
  • Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. More
  • Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the... More
  • Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion. More
  • There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a... More
  • There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for... More
  • To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of... More
  • To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force... More
  • Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of... More

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