A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but… — Manfred Eigen 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
The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured… — Aung San Copy Share Image
Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths… — William James Copy Share Image
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For every question, there is an answer. For every problem, there is a solution. For everything else, there is an explanation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea we would put Americans' economy in jeopardy based on… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I have this theory that if one can go out of their way to show compassion, it will start a chain reaction… — Rachel Scott Copy Share Image
We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
