“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
Edmund Burke
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Albert Einstein
“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams
“It is the theory that decides what can be observed”
“I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child.”