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546 Theories quotes by 423 unique authors
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to…
— George Ripley
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This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing…
— Albert Einstein
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work.…
— Albert Einstein
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One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will…
— Damon Knight
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Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor…
— Lord Acton
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Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.…
— Colin Powell
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The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic…
— Unknown Author
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Scientists would rather change facts than their theories.
— Peter Lilley
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When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations…
— Freeman Dyson
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Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the…
— George W. Bush
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Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice…
— Pope Francis
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The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing
— Damon Knight
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The economists will have to revise their theories of value.
— Albert Einstein
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In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if…
— Albert Einstein
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Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
— Richard Dawkins
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Well, here’s a scientific question: Has anybody ever seen hard evidence? What we get is theories from our earlier prophets. Now, people who think that…
— Morgan Freeman
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There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams…
— Howard Zinn
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God,…
— David Berlinski
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The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control…
— S. T. Joshi
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more…
— Haley Joel Osment
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Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
— Albert Bandura
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
— William James
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