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Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
Michel de Montaigne
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin helping them. Such a world does not exist -- never has.
Gerda Lerner
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
Ruth Hubbard
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
John Sales
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
William Pitt
Choose an attitude of wonderment, taking in all that is being said without assuming you already know what the speaker is talking about. Let go of jumping ahead to finish his or her thoughts. In order to learn you have to risk change...changing your mind!
Dwight Frindt
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Denis Diderot
You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.
Jodi Picoult
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
William Hazlitt
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
Alan Alda
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
Margaret Mitchell
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Edward W. Howe
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard Baruch
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The psychological context of dream-contents consists in the web of associations in which the dream is naturally embedded. Theoretically we can never know anything in advance about this web, but in practice it is sometimes possible, granted long enough experience. Even so, careful analysis will never rely too much on technical rules; the danger of deception and suggestion is too great. In the analysis of isolated dreams above all, this kind of knowing in advance and making assumptions on the grounds of practical expectation or general probability is positively wrong. It should therefore be an absolute rule to assume that every dream, and every part of a dream, is unknown at the outset, and to attempt an interpretation only after carefully taking up the context. We can then apply the meaning we have thus discovered to the text of the dream itself and see whether this yields a fluent reading, or rather whether a satisfying meaning emerges.
Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
H. L. Mencken
