“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
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
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. — Maurice de Vlaminck 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
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. — Gilbert Gottfried 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
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland 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
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
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
“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
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
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
I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far… — David Baker Copy Share Image
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements… — John B. S. Haldane 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
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
“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
“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
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
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle 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