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"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
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"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
"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."
"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
"So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested."
"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."
"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."
"I know what theory... the possibility of impossibility."
"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."
"The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study."
"The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt."
"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
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