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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Theory
Hosea Ballou

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
Truth
Charles Caleb Colton

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Theory
Edith Hamilton

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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Theory
Sherlock Holmes

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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
Belief
William James

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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
Theory
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
Evolution
Malcolm Muggeridge

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Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Theory
Karl Popper

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Arts and Artists
Marcel Proust

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun