| |  | | | | | | | | | | | First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it | | William James | | | How empty is theory in the presence of fact | | Mark Twain | | | If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present | | George Eliot | | | | | | | | | Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world. | | Buddha | | | | | 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 | | | | | | | 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 | | | 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 | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 13 of 13 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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