The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey’s Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried to communicate to anybody else until now, so prepare for Severe Bafflement), that on the...

Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There’s a garuda to get airborne.

It is … through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

If there are infinite dimensions then there would be infinite alternate realities and if there are infinite alternate realities we would exist in almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent…

I am not levying a charge, it’s the truth. Ask anybody ‘¦ it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s fact-based.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. “But the facts, my dear fellow,”...

If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

Obviously, this is theory and easier said than done. Tracking every nickel is a big process and a lot of people don’t do it. You can make the best budget, but if you don’t track...

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything – even if you have no clue what you’re doing.

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based...

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our...

You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is...

…let us point out precisely the difficulties of empiricism as a theory of knowledge. First, it begins with two fixed, unchangeable ultimates–mind and matter. Second, it asserts that knowledge is the agreement of ideas with...

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical...

His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness...

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

My action is my prayer.

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century...

resistance often lacks an overt political project and frequently reflects social practices that are informal, disorganised, apolitical, and atheoretical in nature. In some instances it can reduce itself to an unreflective and defeatist refusal to...

Do you think things always have an explanation? “Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we’re not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just...

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? BERENGER: Yes, but for a man to turn into a rhinoceros is abnormal beyond question. DUDARD: Well, of course,...

In ancient times people weren’t just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy...

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends...

It is theory that decides what can be observed.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as ‘the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine’.

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of...

Do not be afraid of the word ‘theory’. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can appear to have precious little to do with the actual, visual...

You have gone through enough theory, now it’s time to take actions.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the “free will”...

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

That’s the secret – to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world....

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert...