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
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing. — Gilbert Gottfried 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
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. — Romain Rolland 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
“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
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound… — Paul Halmos 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“There have been applied sciences throughout the ages. ... However this so-called practice was not much more than paper in nearly all… — Christian Doppler Copy Share Image
“Theory shows a way to a goal, but it is not the goal. Theory offers security, but there are no secure theories.… — D.A. Blankinship Copy Share Image
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones 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
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
Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
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
“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.” — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Different areas present us with possibilities to test different theories. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
“all theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
