Quotes about Theories

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

As Placher well knew, there is no analogy from the side of the fallen creation that "works." None of the symbols, images, motifs, and themes "work" in any logical way, either as analogies or as theories to explain what God in Christ is doing on the cross.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world. But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

Our faith became a competitive theology with various parochial theories of salvation, instead of a universal cosmology inside of which all can live with an inherent dignity.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.