"It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact."
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"Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings."
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"I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did."
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"Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic."
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"I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead."
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"Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself."
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"The economists will have to revise their theories of value."
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"The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field."
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"In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me."
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"Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory"
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"Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences"
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"What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish."
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"Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?"
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"Theories then are dangerous things."
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"In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book."
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"I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life."
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"Scientists tend to risk theories they admire"
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"Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics."
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"The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change."
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"Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered."
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