Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
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