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

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

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• There is no complete theory of anything.

  Robert Anton Wilson

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• The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

  Adam Smith

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• Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

  Catharine Alice MacKinnon

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• The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

  Ernst Mayr

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• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

  Erwin Schrodinger

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• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it’s preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That’s why the scenery is so flat.

  Rachel McAdams

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• 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

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• It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

  Albert Einstein

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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Walt Whitman

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