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Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. (Quote by - George Santayana)
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,)
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way. (Quote by - Richard Rogers)
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. (Quote by - William Whewell)
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. (Quote by - William Whewell)
First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. (Quote by - William James)
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. (Quote by - Tony Snow)
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler )
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. (Quote by - David Deutsch)
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. (Quote by - George Ripley )
It is the theory that decides what can be observed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)