Activity Quote by Louis Agassiz

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations…

— Chinua Achebe

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other…

— James Hansen

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to…

— Terence McKenna

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more rewarding, in…

— Barbara Tuchman

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

— E. O. Wilson

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

— E. O. Wilson

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in…

— Ernst Haas

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and…

— Robert Ringer

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the…

— Celia Green

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as…

— Claude Bernard