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"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."
"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing."
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories."
"Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate."
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"It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views."
"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist."
"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."
"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives."
"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic."
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