Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle. — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories come up whenever people feel like the universe is too random.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. — Simon Travaglia Copy Share Image
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is… — E'yen A. Gardner Copy Share Image
“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their… — Angourie Rice Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something. — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
I have made some headway in addressing these questions, however, and succeeded in explaining how it is that the category of knowledge… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories are also a way for people to give context and meaning to events that frighten them. Without a coherent explanation… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases.… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“All the best physical theories are associated with equations which allow the continuation of data defined at present into the future, and… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world. For the falsificationist, If follows… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“Boehme makes such leaps, such contradictions, such confusions of thought. It is as though he wishes to vault directly into heaven upon… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’re at a yard… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
![“He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature to need a religious crutch, and I don't begrudge anyone that. I just don't need one.” quote by Janeane Garofalo](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0f9/janeane-garofalo-1940_crutches_he-god-just-seems-so-man-made-to-me-ther_1211082.png)
![“[T]ruly grand and powerful theories [...] do not and cannot rest upon single observations. Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. The failure of a particular claim usually records…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1aa/stephen-jay-gould-885_bankruptcy_t-ruly-grand-and-powerful-theories-do-no_1770112.png)
