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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... 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.

Nikola Tesla
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It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

Albert Einstein
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Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. -Chaim Weizmann
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If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

Jefferson Davis
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Wilhelm Reich
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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -Niels Bohr
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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.

Edgar Allan Poe
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If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

Stephen Hawking
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Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. -Louis Pasteur
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Why, on the theory of Creation, should there be so much variety and so little real novelty?

Charles Darwin
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Charles Darwin
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. -Douglas Adams
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There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Henry Huxley
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A theory must be tempered with reality. -Jawaharlal Nehru
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini
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If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I'm a German, and Germany will say that I'm a jew.

Albert Einstein
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -Albert Einstein
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No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein
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The theory is, you're there to save a life.

Michael Chitwood
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. -Immanuel Kant
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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
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The whole theory of the new law is to see how to improve people's ability to repay creditors. There's got to be a balance between relieving debt and allowing creditors to collect.

Dick Martin
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Life is so unlike theory. -Anthony Trollope
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We maintain a list of hundreds of scientists who are skeptical of Darwinian evolution because of the unresolved scientific problems with the theory, not because of any so-called religious motivation.

Bruce Chapman
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PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things ? as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops ? don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.

Malcolm Gladwell
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First, dot-coms turned into dot-bombs, and second, regulators didn't make it easy, ... In theory, there was no reason Utility.com could not have been wildly successful, but states adopted rules that protect the incumbent utilities which means new companies have no room in which to operate. -John Egan
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In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Sir Arthur Eddington
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Americans love a conspiracy theory. It also tapped into people's disillusionment with the Catholic Church following the sexual abuse scandals.

Lynn Garrett
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The mathematical theory of random polynomials and random matrices has already found many applications in physics. Indeed the Hamiltonian of a complex or chaotic system can often be viewed as such a matrix. -Jean Dalibard
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