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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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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."
"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
"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."
"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
"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."
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
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"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."
"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."
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
"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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