Current situation Quote by Simon Critchley

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor…

— Karl Popper

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

— Ani DiFranco

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

— Milton Friedman

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

— David Antin

A theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a…

— Abraham Kaplan

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of…

— William Poundstone

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

— Hosea Ballou

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

— J. D. Trout

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

— Philip J. Davis