Analogies Quote by Jacob Bronowski

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

— Karl Popper

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to…

— William James

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create…

— Alison Gopnik

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

— Gilbert Ryle

“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical…

— John Michael Greer

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…

— Al Gore

“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

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the…

— Carl Jung

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

— David Gross

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

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

— Nan Goldin