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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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"On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron."
"I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory."
"On the other hand, we don't understand the theory too completely, and because of this fuzziness of spacetime, the very concept of spacetime and spacetime dimensions isn't precisely defined."
"The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions."
"The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise."
"My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it."
"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end."
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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."
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
"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."
"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."
"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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