Quotes with theory

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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Assata Shakur Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Albert Einstein There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Alan Dundes They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • William Wordsworth Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Crick To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 2, A Defence Of Politics Against Ideology, p.
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Richard Dawkins Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Niels Bohr We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Abraham Kaplan We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Henry Louis Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Keith Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Andrea Dworkin While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Butch Trucks With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and believe anything.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Asa Gray Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Niels Bohr Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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