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• The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Future, Science

  Albert Einstein (2002). “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Berlin years, writings, 1918-1921”

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

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• Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Wisest

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• I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Believe, Science

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• I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.

  Mary Pratt

  Creative, Intellectual, Definitions

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

  Alice Neel

  Faces, Knows, Hard

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• The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Practice

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

  James R Newman

  Math, Branches, Groups

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1534, Рипол Классик

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• It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Economy, Experiments

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.11, eKitap Projesi

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• Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Illogical, Meaningless

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• To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

  Charles Darwin

  Distance, Believe, Eye

  "The Collapse of Evolution". Book by Scott Huse, p. 73, 1996.

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• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Important, Purpose, Ends

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• Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Too Much, Results, Has Beens

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• Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

  Chip Kidd

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Technology

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tree, Green, Golden

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different.

  Larry McVoy

  Yoga, Practice, Different

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• No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

  Andre Gide

  Goes On, Literature, Use

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, Detached Pages, 1913.

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  I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dream, Religious, Atheist

  "Like Rolling Uphill: Realizing the Honesty of Atheism". Book by Dianna Narciso, 2004.

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• If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Facts, Conflict, Changed

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• Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.

  Ray Bradbury

  Jobs, Sleep, Giving

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

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• Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

  Niels Bohr

  Crazy, Science, Technology

  "First Philosophy: The Theory of Everything". Book by Spencer Scoular, 2007.

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