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• I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

  Caitlin Rose

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• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  Imre Lakatos

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• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  Imre Lakatos

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• If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

  Brian Greene

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• A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

  Brian Greene

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• By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.

  Brad Pitt

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  Friedrich Engels

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• The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

  Frederick Pollock

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• Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

  Paul Samuelson

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• I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

  Billy Joel

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• My theory is this; I’m not a political songwriter. I’m an honest songwriter.

  Billy Bragg

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• Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  Gerrit Smith

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• I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

  Barbara Corcoran

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• In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

  Talcott Parsons

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• Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

  Talcott Parsons

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• Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

  George Stigler

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• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

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• Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

  George Santayana

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• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  Stephen Hawking

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• Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

  Stephen Hawking

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