Quotes by Theory Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why. Hermann Hesse theory practice knowledge A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. Hermann von Helmholtz metaphysical theory science Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. Hosea Ballou tangible experience theory A theory is a battlefield in your head. Haruki Murakami battlefields theory Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories. Hugh Everett III resources theory should-have I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar. Hunter Hayes guitar theory player Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion. Iain Banks suspicion causes theory Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory. Ian Hacking theory might adventure No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms. Imre Lakatos results theory science There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory. Imre Lakatos falsification emergence theory In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts Imre Lakatos theory order facts Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. Imre Lakatos experiments theory relation The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. Irene Joliot-Curie nobel theory science My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. Indira Gandhi liberated theory men The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action. Isabel Paterson humanitarian theory action It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. Isaac Asimov learning accepting theory Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. J. David Lewis-Williams scientist data theory The theory of truth is a series of truisms. J. L. Austin truism theory truth I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. J. J. Abrams theory running The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once. J. J. Abrams episodes theory ideas «7891011121314151617»
