Anything Quote by Charlie Munger

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and…

— Raphael Gasson

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

— Baruch Spinoza

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

— George Santayana

Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

— Eric Mazur

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

— Paul Feyerabend

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

— Bertrand Russell

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are…

— Joseph Barrell