Quote by Agatha Christie

“If the fact will not fit the theory - let the theory go”

— Agatha Christie

“Always the facts must be twisted to fit the theory!”

— Agatha Christie

“Everywhere one turned, one found idiocies that were commonly accepted as truths only because they were embedded in a theory to which the scientists…

— Michael Lewis

“That' the thing about theories. You can theorize all you want, but at the end of the day when you theories become reality, when…

— Jane Green

“Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.”

— Carlo Rovelli

“But you perceive, my boy, that it is not so, and that facts, as usual, are very stubborn things, overruling all theories.”

— Jules Verne

“We’ve been half right about a lot of things, but there’s something missing from our theories, something whose nature we haven’t even guessed yet.…

— Greg Egan

“Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot.”

— Sarah Richards

“metaphysics by showing that these theories are not just false, but unintelligible.”

— David Hume

“Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions.”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“People conspire, that's not a theory.”

— Michael Palmero

“I’m not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about…

— Marilynne Robinson