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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent… — Yukio Mishima
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. — Albert Einstein
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately… — Barack Obama
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and… — Joseph Story
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory… — Rick Perry
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to… — Joshua Slocum
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really… — Shaquille O'Neal
Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd. — Bertrand Russell
Observations always involve theory. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and… — Stephen Jay Gould
The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by… — Jacques Monod
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run… — Swami Vivekananda
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but… — Swami Vivekananda
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to… — Claude Debussy
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it… — Victor J. Stenger
Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even… — Stephen Jay Gould
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful… — Al Gore

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