Theory Quotes - Page 3
"William Wordsworth, a biography".
Attributed to Chaim Weizmann, after a long trans-Atlantic journey; "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" credits Nigel Calder, "Einstein's Universe", 1979.
Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.
Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”
Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.22, Anamchara Books
The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.
Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.
"The electron and the light-quant from the experimental point of view". Robert Andrews Millikan's Nobel Lecture, May 23, 1924.
Collected Logical Works Volume II An Investigation of the Law of Thought Chapter XVI (p. 258)
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”
Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.12, Ronin Publishing
Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.