Contrasting Quote by Steven Pinker

“A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the…

— Albert Einstein

“You can't learn what you're unable to understand but a theory is infeasible until you won't need it.”

— Robin Sacredfire

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no…

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulous

“You can't learn what you can't understand but any theory is infeasible until you don't need it.”

— Robin Sacredfire

“I have a theory that sometimes people think they need to talk as much as possible, almost as if talking more equates to knowing…

— Mary Mihalic

“This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.”

— Clayton M. Christensen

“I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.”

— Iain Pears

“That' the thing about theories. You can theorize all you want, but at the end of the day when you theories become reality, when…

— Jane Green

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— J. D. Trout

“Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.”

— Samir Okasha

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky