Celebration Quote by Alexei Panshin

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

— Gregory Benford

Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

— Lewis Thomas

“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption…

— Alexander Hamilton

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

— Romain Rolland

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and…

— Patricia Moyes

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

— Mary Jane Holmes

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

— Henry David Thoreau

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however…

— Mao Zedong

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.

— Mac Barnett

“The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might…

— Michio Kaku

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the…

— William James