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> [Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-bernard/men-who-have-excessive-faith-in-their-theories-make-poor-observations/)

[Claude Bernard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-bernard/)

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> [Literary theories will not make a writer write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-wier/literary-theories-will-not-make-a-writer-write/)

[Allen Wier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-wier/)

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> [“The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jameson-currier/the-older-you-get-the-more-theories-you-make-up-about-things/)

[Jameson Currier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jameson-currier/)

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> [When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-you-have-two-competing-theories-that-make-exactly-the-same/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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