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Tag Name "Theories" (424)

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Theories have nothing to do with life.
Ellen Glasgow
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Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
Susan Sontag
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.
Mary Leakey
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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand
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Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.
Harlow Shapley
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Theories are like a stairway by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.
Claude Bernard
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Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
Richard Livingstone
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton
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Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
Michael Crichton
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Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.
Michael Polanyi
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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
Sogyal Rinpoche
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Theories then are dangerous things.
Virginia Woolf
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
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Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete
Isaac Asimov
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Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
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"I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: ""Les thories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste."" There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different the theories will remain but the frog may disappear."
Frank Kermode
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The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.
Derek R. Audette
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They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.
Frederick Lenz
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There are two theories. There's one theory that Barack Obama wants to destroy the country and create a socialistic country. There is that theory, and I've read a lot. This isn't necessarily my theory. I personally think they're incompetent.
Donald Trump
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Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Freeman Dyson
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Very dangerous things, theories.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I think it laughable, frankly, that the physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything. There is not one explanation. We may eventually have several theories that can tie things together nicely but there is not a single theory of everything.
Edgar Mitchell
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