Beyond Quote by Noam Chomsky

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no knowledge without theory.

— W. Edwards Deming

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

— Jay Wright Forrester

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

— Mark Twain

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

— Jayni Chase

“If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds.”

— Noam Chomsky

The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication…

— Raymond Geuss

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

— James Luther Adams

There is no complete theory of anything.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all…

— David Stras

No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

— Charles de Gaulle