quotations about theory and theories
Conspiracy theories are designed to make lazy under-achievers feel like rigorous scholars -- no person with two braincells to rub together has any respect for them.
JULIE BURCHILL
"The Manchester conspiracy theory mob are a pitiful bunch", The Spectator, May 27, 2017
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
Lecture VI, "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth", Pragmatism
I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.
JAMES BALDWIN
Notes of a Native Son
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
JARON LANIER
"One Half of a Manifesto", The New Humanists: Science at the Edge
Everybody has a theory.
DANIEL HANDLER
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