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15 Quotes for 'Theory' in the Database.

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 :: Topics »  Letter "T" »  Theory Quotes
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Author: Denis Diderot
Source: None
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
Author: Harold S. Geneen
Source: None
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Author: Yogi Berra
Source: None
Life is so unlike theory.
Author: Anthony Trollope
Source: None
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant.
Author: Manfred Eigen
Source: None
Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Author: Ed Howe
Source: None
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
Author: Sir Arthur Eddington
Source: None
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
Author: Thomas A. Edison
Source: None
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Author: Ed Howe
Source: None
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Author: Thomas Huxley
Source: None
Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
Author: Walt Whitman
Source: None
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Author: Thomas Huxley
Source: None

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