Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.” — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“If you can't do it, don't pledge to do it. Don't be a liar; say only what you can do. It's better… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Personally, I’ve come to believe that theories are of small value when it comes to actually living your life, to making all… — Randall Silvis Copy Share Image
“The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation… — National Academy of Sciences Copy Share Image
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care… — Peaches Geldof Copy Share Image
Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The running joke on set [of the Westworlds] was that everyone at some point thinks that they're Anthony Hopkins. Like, "Guys, I… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This… — J.B.S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account… — David Stras Copy Share Image
You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“God created… light and dark, heaven and hell— science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang created everything in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
“People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's… — Mahendra Singh Dhoni Copy Share Image
Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image