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“The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.”
Albert Einstein
“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”
“Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory”
Stephen Jay Gould
“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
“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
G. K. Chesterton
“It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn”
Isaac Asimov
“A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.”
Mark Twain
“Relativity applies to physics, not ethics”
“Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.”
Mike Barfield
“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity”
Ludwig Wittgenstein