Theory Quotes

“There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must say what reading we are guilty of.”

“There is no practice except by and in an ideology.”

“The lonely hour of the 'last instance' never comes.”

“It seems likely that the electron is, in a certain sense, a simple particle and not a complex structure.”

“For me it is so clear that measurement is irrelevant. I mean that the word 'measurement' should not be in the theory.”

“Part of the bargain of being a scientist is that you're not supposed to have an emotional attachment to your theories.”

“We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.”

“The most deeply-seated, obstinate and oft-recurring chronic diseases are those which are due to psora, syphilis and sycosis.”

“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a unified theory of all the forces of nature.”

“The beauty of a theory is that it can be applied to a wide range of phenomena.”

“The idea that there are 'systems' which are represented by state vectors, and 'apparatus' which are not, is surely something that we must grow out of.”

“There is nothing so practical as a good theory.”

“The possibility of reading can never be taken for granted.”

“Ideology has no history.”

“I think that the word 'measurement' has been so abused that it is better to just get it out of the theory.”

“A contract for the transfer of a commodity specifies, besides its physical properties, its location and its date.”

“When you play a note, it's not just the note. It's the context.”

“Facts are stupid things until brought into connection with some general law.”

“What we call the elements of art are not just abstract components; they are forces, vectors that push and pull.”

“A theory has only the validity that its logic and its experiments give it.”