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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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• After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

  Simon Van Der Meer

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• It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

  Sidney Blumenthal

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• Beck said he didn’t believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

  Sheryl Crow

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• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  Gary Lawrence Francione

  Topics in Evolution

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• This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

  Garet Garrett

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• My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

  Scott Thompson

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• It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It’s wrong.

  Saul Kripke

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• Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

  Salma Hayek

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• A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

  Ruth Hubbard

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• Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

  Russell Baker

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• Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

  Rudolf Arnheim

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• As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

  Roger Penrose

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• The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

  Roger Penrose

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• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  Edward W. Howe

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• In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

  Robert Delaunay

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  Tags in Find, System, Theory

• There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Topics in Life

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• There is no complete theory of anything.

  Robert Anton Wilson

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