Drawing Quote by Joyce Grenfell

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the…

— Robert B. Laughlin

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

— Josephine Lawrence

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and…

— Nikola Tesla

I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I…

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Nan Goldin

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read…

— Alastair Reynolds

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

— Brian Greene

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

— Herbert A. Simon

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered…

— Michael Feinstein

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein