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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new… — Ignazio Silone
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth. — Anthony de Mello
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men… — Ludwig von Mises
First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish… — Noam Chomsky
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would… — Albert Bandura
. . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one… — R. Buckminster Fuller
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something… — Elizabeth McCracken
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about… — Edward Witten
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all… — Mike Nichols
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory,… — Alfonso Garcia Robles
Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. — Witold Rybczynski
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind… — George Orwell
Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts… — Cass Sunstein
The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take… — Seymour Papert
Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of… — Ellen G. White
It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world. — Kiki Smith
Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species. — Lord Kelvin
The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating… — G. Edward Griffin
The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — William Whewell
Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory… — Alexei Panshin
Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs… — Andrew Bird

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