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“I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.”

“In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.”

Men States Together Natural Theory Concepts Arise Being True

Book:The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

“A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.”

Ideas Might Pieces Theory Prove Hundred Tests Valuable Being True

Book:The Light of Other Days

Source: The Light of Other Days

“We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.”

Has Beens Two Term Results Subjects Theory Evidence Experiments Doctrine Being True Data Mathematical Treatment Peculiar Electricity Fluid Verification

Book:A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Source: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

“The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.”

Might Order Theory Reader Being True Awful Quantity Supposing Supposing That

Author:Paul Ormerod

“It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the subconscious level will do its kind of work as faithfully as the conscious does its kind.”

Thinking Mind Kind May Doe Levels Theory Conscious Conclusion Being True Subconscious Intuitive

Book:In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

“Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.”

Life Humans Life Is Found Easy Practice Achieve Theory Series Being True Compromise Human Life

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.”

“There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.”

Trying Wanted Theory Messages Being True Civilisation

Author:Mel Gibson

“The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.”

Ifs Different Helping Use Problem Seems Study Player Theory Easier Mathematics Chess Being True Branches Resolve Links Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.”

Ifs May Doe Science Realizing Consciousness Information Theory Scientist Originals Method Rate Conclusion Being True Greek Physicist Phony Scientific Method Connotation

Author:Anthony Standen

“Unquestionably the truth or fallacy of the theory of the survival of the soul is by far the most tremendous question that can exercise the human mind. The more you think of it, the more all other questions seem to sink into utter insignificance, for only if survival be true, can the Universe be rationalized at all.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Humans Soul Seems Universe Theory Exercise Survival Being True Human Mind Fallacy Insignificance

Author:Ernest MacBride

“Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in which the contrary would be true, and empirical evidence, though it exists, has little bearing on real situations.”

Littles Real Would Be Situation Theory Circumstances Evidence Contrary Being True Cheating Cooperating Empirical Evidence

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”

Enough Science Technology Crazy Theory Madness Being True Your Crazy

Author:Niels Bohr