#theories

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#theories #education

The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so." (Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#dispute #haldane #opportunism #science #self-contradiction

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate. ↗

— David Chalmers

#associations #boil #build #core #down

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

#believe #doctor #must #prescription #sick

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. ↗

— Asa Gray

#basis #beliefs #class #facts #held

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#conformity #consequences #credit #false #gain

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#consider #facts #may #out #position

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#decisive #development #economic #factors #fields

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.' ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#acting #been #different #drama #drama school