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“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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“However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

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“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force

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“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

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“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

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“Isn't a gram of observation worth a ton of theory?”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

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“That a particular molecular motion does give rise to a state of consciousness is experimentally certain; but the how and why of the process are just as inexplicable as in the case of the communication of kinetic energy by impact.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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