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Theory Quotes - Page 3

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Attributed to Chaim Weizmann, after a long trans-Atlantic journey; "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" credits Nigel Calder, "Einstein's Universe", 1979.

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper

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.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”