People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries — John Herschel Copy Share Image
When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“When you’re upset, you do weights.” “Is that another one of your theories, Mom?” “It’s more than a theory, Ari.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
“Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
“I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out,any more than a normal… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sure, theories of humor discern a few broad invariants: incongruity, misattribution, etc. But whereas I might find a blind date gone horribly… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
