Quote by Colin McGinn

Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a…

— Herbert Spencer

“The brain is... an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern, though never an abiding one.”

— Anonymous

“The attempt at introspective analysis... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas…

— William James

For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet…

— David Berman

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework…

— Charlie Munger

The ideas dictate everything.

— David Lynch

“A blank page and time ignite infinite possibilities in a mind unyielding to boundaries.”

— Adrienne Dionne

“I was stringing beads of different sizes in symmetrical groups—two large beads, three small ones, and so on. I had made many mistakes, and…

— Helen Keller

“That' the thing about theories. You can theorize all you want, but at the end of the day when you theories become reality, when…

— Jane Green

“The theory arrived neither full-blown, like an orphan on the doorstep, nor sharply defined, like a spike through a shoe; nor did it develop…

— Tom Robbins

“It has never yet been supposed, that all the facts of nature, and all the means of acquiring precision in the computation and analysis…

— Marquis de Condorcet

“Theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavor to make the…

— Karl Popper