#theories

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.” --from Past Present and Future are One ↗

— Aberjhani

#history #philosophy #poetry #spirituality #theories

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#error #intelligence #theories #intelligence

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#close #closest #closest friend #death #died

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade. ↗

— Harlow Shapley

#fade #good #never #observations #theories

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#civilization #culture #found #group #living

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#deduction #information #mistake #theories #theory

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. ↗

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#theories #nature

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#love #philosophers #scientists #theologians #theories

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗