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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
Maurice Allais
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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.


Michael Novak
I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.
Jonah Lehrer
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George Orwell
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
Ike Barinholtz
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People love conspiracy theories.


Neil Armstrong
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.


Charles Horton Cooley
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot
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Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
Paul Sabatier
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There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.


Theresa May
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And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Patricia Ireland
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.


Edmund Phelps
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.


Mary Leakey
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Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.


Emile M. Cioran
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We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.
Paul Kalanithi
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
Wayne Knight
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Do nothing which is of no use.


Miyamoto Musashi
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