| "The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop." »Edwin Conklin |
| "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Adams |
| "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Noel Adams |
| "God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." »Sir William Bragg |
| "A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory." »Albert Einstein |
| "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon |
| "We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." »Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut |
| "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice In practice, there is." »Chuck Reid |
| "I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade." »Mary J. Wilson |
| "As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther." »Isaac Watts |
| "If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability." »Vannevar Bush |
| "Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability." »John Perry |
| "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "It is the theory that decides what we can observe." »Albert Einstein |
| "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." »Niels Henrik David Bohr |
| "I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have." »Jewel |
| "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." »Steven Wright |
| ""What if in REALITY the only great thing in [us] was just the theory of maybe loving each other"" »Sguichardo |
| "The ultimate most holy form of theory is action." »Nikos Kazantzakis |
| "It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it." »Kedar Joshi |
| "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." »Friedrich Engels |
| "A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant." »Manfred Eigen |
| "If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now." »Larry Wright |
| "The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence." »Philo Vance |
| "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." »H.L. Mencken |
| "My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The so-called method of co-education is false in theory and hamful to Christian training." »Pope Pius XI |
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