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"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
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"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter."
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"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
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"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
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"I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions."
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"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
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"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."
Life
"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
Truth
"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
Theory
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
Dogs
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
Happiness
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
Husband
"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."
Thought
"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."
Woman
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