About Quote by Steve Martin

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

— Nan Goldin

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can…

— Richard Howells

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton

[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's…

— David Quammen

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

— David Antin

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

— Jean-Martin Charcot

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

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

— Hermann Hesse

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create…

— Alison Gopnik