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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. -- Karl Popper
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. -- Ferran Adria
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear. -- J. D. Trout
Theories then are dangerous things. -- Virginia Woolf
The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen. -- Gary Hamel
In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative. -- Paulo Coelho
Every thought is a potential reality. -- Debasish Mridha
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them. -- Constance Fenimore Woolson
The daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything is possible.
- Story, Robert McKee -- Audrey Godwin
Anything that exists is possible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us. -- Lisa Randall
You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it. -- Josephine Lawrence
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom. -- Aristotle.
If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it. -- Noam Chomsky
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. -- Chris Argyris
Every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own ... -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. -- Michael Crichton
I have a theory that theories are destructive. -- Carl Whitaker
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. -- Thomas Huxley
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. -- Robert Charles Wilson
The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment ... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given. -- Paul Dirac
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. -- Constantin Brancusi
There is no complete theory of anything. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion. -- Mason Cooley
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition. -- David Gross
Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge -- Manuel Castells
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. -- John Stuart Mill
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. -- Talcott Parsons
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent. -- Edmund Burke
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. -- Kenneth L. Pike
I'm going to move to Theory someday. Everything works there. -- Michael Swanwick
The Improbable Is Not Impossible -- Anonymous
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. -- Cleveland Abbe
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader. -- Philip K. Dick
So we are stuck with a theory, and we do not know whether it is right or wrong, but we do know that it is a little wrong, or at least incomplete. In -- Bill Bryson
The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable. -- Julian Huxley
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science ... It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts. -- Charles Darwin
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it. -- Michio Kaku
There is nothing as practical as good theory. - KURT LEWIN -- Katherine S. Van Wormer
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. -- Albert Einstein
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination. -- Emily Dickinson
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment. -- Carl Von Clausewitz
The limit of impossible lies possibility. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The Impossible is Always Possible -- Robert Stephen
[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. -- Robert A. Heinlein
How impossibly untangleable is the tangle of what ifs. -- Nicola Morgan
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another. -- Brian Schmidt
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. -- E.w. Howe
Greater possibilities supersedes mere imagination -- Sunday Adelaja
There are infinite possibilities. -- Vanna Bonta
There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place. -- Michael Pollan
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. -- Max Born
A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess. - Gordon -- Derek Landy
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect. -- Richard P. Feynman
Imaginary' universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed 'real' one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts. -- G.h. Hardy
Everything that is possible happens. -- Taylor Jenkins Reid
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. -- Douglas Adams
That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong! -- Wolfgang Pauli
We need useless theory more than ever today. -- Slavoj Zizek
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice. -- James Stephens
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. -- Baruch Spinoza
Like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities. -- Daniel Tammet
The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe. -- Paul Myers
It is presupposed that no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something. -- Mason Cooley
The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory. -- Teresa De Lauretis
Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information. -- Henry Mintzberg
With barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises -- Jane Austen
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified. -- David Gross
The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. -- Marcel Duchamp
Redefine the possible. -- Stewart Brand
It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact. -- Bill James
In Your mind, anything is possible... -- Sabrina Mesko
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior. -- Werner Heisenberg
Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! -- Ray Harmony
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. -- Susan Neiman
Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems. -- Talcott Parsons
your first thought would send the power of Quantum physics into a hive of activity. your first thought, would inevitably become the destiny of the day -- Andre Jordan
We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities. -- Seth Klarman
Anything that is conceivable in the human mind is possible. -- Wally Hickel
Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. -- Milton Friedman
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. -- Northrop Frye
It is only theory that makes men completely incautious. -- Bertrand Russell
What exists, is possible. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories. -- F Scott Fitzgerald
You'll see that without theory, we're at sea without a sextant. -- Clayton M Christensen
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground. -- Elisha Gray
Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said. -- Lev Artsimovich
What we can imagine we can make real -- Nadine May
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. -- Philip J. Davis
Anything is possible; possibilities exist in any problem. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that. -- Clayton Christensen
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. -- Jorge Luis Borges
To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws -- Sunday Adelaja
Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original. -- Mikhail Chigorin
Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain. -- John Stewart Bell
What you can imagine depends on what you know. -- Daniel C. Dennett
The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate where we needth to be exact. -- Mpho Leteng
