Barns Quote by Albert Einstein

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create…

— Alison Gopnik

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's…

— Steve Martin

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to…

— William James

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the…

— Albert Einstein

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton

“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can…

— Richard Howells

I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that…

— Stephen Hawking

Just because you're starting from something which you know - a theory which you know is right and trying to further develop your understand…

— Peter Woit

New ideas require new structures.

— Leroy Hood

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

— Carl Whitaker