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I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.


Stephen Cole Kleene


#about #because #belief #claim #going

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.


Georges Rouault


#both #canvas #discards #everything #forgets

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.


Leland Stanford


#creation #declared #delusive #direct #distribution

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.


Roger Cohen


#change

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.


George Benson


#future #gives #going #good #guitar

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.


Max Born


#always #been #cases #continuity #happenings

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.


David Deutsch


#common #common sense #make #more #only

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight

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


Alexander Pope


#been #contains #left #like #object

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


Hosea Ballou


#experience #insubstantial #only #tangible #theories






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