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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
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I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis -
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
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In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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.
A Scandal in Bohemia (1891) -
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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