Claims Quote by Judith Butler

“If theory means a reasonably systematic reflection of our guiding assumptions, it remains as indispensable as ever.”

— Terry Eagleton

“theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.”

— Neil Postman

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of…

— David Bohm

I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story, and incident…

— Rob Nixon

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the…

— Albert Einstein

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

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

A theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“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

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for a living.”

— Howard Wainer

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to…

— Jean Baudrillard