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“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.”
Ty Cobb
“My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.”
Stephen Wright
“A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.”
Mark Twain
“Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory”
Stephen Jay Gould
“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact”
Winston Churchill
“The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion”
Walter Lippman
“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”
Bertolt Brecht
“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”
Franz Kafka
“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
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