Argument Quote by William Stanley Jevons

[Readers] who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling.

— Rhoda Koenig

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things…

— Hilary Mantel

“Maybe I am a coward. In facts, it is much better than open my big mouth and say useless things.”

— Shim Steward

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

— Virginia Woolf

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of…

— Ben Huh

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

— Imre Lakatos

Any theory is better than no theory.

— Fuller Albright

When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these…

— Betty Sue Flowers

If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't…

— Clayton Christensen

And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school…

— Charlie Munger

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to…

— Clayton Christensen

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

— Chris Wooding