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“The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”

Justice Greater Theory Injustice Tolerance Permit Persecution Tolerable

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.”

Men Believe Facts Action Belief Greater Theory Providence Incline Fatalism

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.”

Ifs Knows May Care Difficult Justice Greater Human Nature Theory Equal Difficulty Stronger Asking Practicals Equality And Justice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.”

“Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.”

People Facts Greater Theory Words Of Wisdom Always Wrong

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.”

Source: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)

“Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.”

Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.”

Greater Theory Impressive Premises Thermodynamics

Author:Albert Einstein

“Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has in these other areas. We, therefore, need to experiment in this area and, like scientists who work in other areas, develop and test theories in order to gain greater understanding”

Knows Needs Spiritual Order Understanding Greater Theory Gains Areas Tests Scientist Experiments Assumption

Author:Charles H. Kraft

“The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school biology courses in the United States. If the theory is thought of in this way, one should not be surprised if a judge at some point decides that teaching evolutionary theory violates the Constitutional principle of neutrality with respect to religion.”

Ifs Way Should States School Courses Loses United Principles United States Greater Risk Teaching Judging Theory Biology Public School Atheistic Neutrality

Author:Elliott Sober