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

  Gary Lawrence Francione

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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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• Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

  Paul Samuelson

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

  Roger Penrose

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

  Imre Lakatos

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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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• 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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• 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 no complete theory of anything.

  Robert Anton Wilson

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

  Billy Joel

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