#theory

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#first #itself #literary #literature #only

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#among #called #especially #fact #gossip

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#blogs #could #diaries #diary #good

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#because #create #cutting #economy #fall

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#difference #practice #theory

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#change #facts #fit #theory

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#be true #crazy #enough #theory #true

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

#being #chance #correct #crazy #divides

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

#basic #commitments #deeper #derived #drops

I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

#based #girl #i #i am #kind