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String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Good
String
More
Could
Lot
Exists
Than
Biggest
Prediction
Theories
Theory
Gravity
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
Simon Travaglia
Life
Only
Facts
Been
Theories
Standing
Disproved
Thing
Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.
Siri Hustvedt
Truth
Great
Assume
Our
Only
Through
Cultural
Error
Theories
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
Stanley Fish
You
Convictions
Assume
Philosophical
Moral
Someone
Know
Always
Theories
Based
Incorrect
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
Stefan Banach
Best
Better
Analogy
Find
See
Between
Mathematician
Person
Notice
Theorems
Theories
Who
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
Stephen Cole Kleene
Good
You
Other
Philosophical
Philosophy
Claim
Out
Able
Some
About
Had
Know
Because
Prove
Were
Going
Just
Whether
Worked
Hard
Theories
Theory
Belief
Disaffection, alienation and conspiracy theories are commonplace among European Muslims, but dangerous Islamist radicalism and the Islamic State's 'foreign fighter' recruitment successes tend to be specific to certain European towns, districts and ghettos.
Terry Glavin
Dangerous
Conspiracy
Fighter
State
Alienation
Muslims
Districts
Tend
Recruitment
Towns
Islamic
Foreign
Commonplace
Successes
Certain
Theories
European
Specific
Among
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell
Speak
Visions
Facts
Divorced
Mere
Isolated
Curiosities
Against
Themselves
Theories
Competing
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
Walter Gropius
Architecture
Stage
Confuse
Architects
Main
Development
New
Obstacles
Issue
Encountered
Very
Personal
Conflicting
Theories
Helped
Serious
Early
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
Walter Kirn
Best
Behavior
Politicians
Too
Evidence
Favor
Sung
Immune
Struggled
Mere
Remind
Idea
Like
Because
Very
Selves
American
Human
Blues
Human Behavior
Either
Them
Themselves
Theories
Who
Imagine
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater
Time
Experience
Desperate
Sense
Gathering
Our
See
About
Touch
Shall
Splendour
Make
Effort
Brevity
Theories
Awful
Hardly
Things
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
William Whewell
Predict
Only
True
Test
Account
Theories
Phenomena
As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires drinking scotch behind some closed doors. But I do think that the voters are correct in sensing that they're really losing power. And in reaction, they give the system an angry kick.
Yuval Noah Harari
Angry
World
Complicated
Losing
Conspiracy
Drinking
Power
Closed
Few
Doors
Think
Too
Kick
Correct
System
Some
About
Give
Sceptical
Voters
Reaction
Because
Historian
Scotch
Closed Doors
Behind
Sensing
Far
Really
Theories
Billionaires
One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love
Eyes
Women
Men
Ears
Theories
I have a few theories and trains of thought that I wouldn’t expose because they are not anyone’s business. I hold them sacred, it’s how I feel, it’s my opinion, not up for debate, and not meant to be shared.
Joe Budden
Business
Debate
Thought
Few
I Feel
Sacred
Shared
Feel
Because
Opinion
How
Up
Trains
Hold
Them
Meant
Meant To Be
Theories
Expose
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