Accounts Quote by Oliver Heaviside

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a…

— Jacob Bronowski

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you…

— Hermann Bondi

For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of…

— Peter Lilley

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get…

— Albert Einstein

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

— Michel Chossudovsky

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing;…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Some object that unless we have some explanation of what it is for a proposition to correspond with the facts, the theory is not…

— Anonymous

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory

— Michel Chossudovsky

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is…

— Norman Rush

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

— Allen Ginsberg

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group.…

— Bobby Fischer

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe