"The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real."
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"Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice."
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"[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have."
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"If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance."
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"Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing."
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"It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."
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"Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life."
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"It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes."
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"I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself."
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"The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence."
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"Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."
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"Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line."
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"Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory."
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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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"There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth."
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"If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers"
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"All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature."
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"Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of."
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"Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle."
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"There is no complete theory of anything."
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