(730 quotes found)
“If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism”
Thomas Jefferson
“The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented”
Henry Louis Mencken
“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
“Don't confuse "hypothesis" and "theory." The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.”
Martin H. Fischer
“He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”
J. D. Salinger
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
Friedrich Engels
“It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.”
French Proverb
“I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
Isaac Asimov
“And to answer the question that people have about this conspiracy theory that he has a pack in his back, my answer is, if someone was feeding him answers, couldn't they be able to feed him better ones than he came up with?”
Bill Maher
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