The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
Ellen G. White
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are... →
George C. Williams
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at... →
E. O. Wilson
There is no complete theory of anything.
Robert Anton Wilson
One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the... →
Edward Witten
On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and... →
Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the... →
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Tom Wolfe
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Steven Wright