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“First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it”

William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)

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“The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”

Niels Bohr quotes (Danish Physicist, first to apply the quantum theory.Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. 1885-1962)

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“Generally, the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories”

Felix Cohen quotes

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“The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing”

Damon Knight quotes

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“Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory”

William Wordsworth quotes (Major English Romantic Poet. 1770-1850)

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“Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction”

Pierre Pachet quotes

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“Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts”

George Santayana quotes (Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism. 1863-1952)