Funeral by funeral, theory advances
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I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.
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When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted.
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
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Jealousy: The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste
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Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth
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A few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called critical philosophy and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term philosopher.
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Life is so unlike theory.
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I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.
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Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity
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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
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There is nothing so practical as a good theory
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A theory must be tempered with reality.
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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.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
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If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.<br/>I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
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Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
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My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
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It is the theory that decides what can be observed
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