Theorising Quotes

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. (Ade Edmondson)
A seeker after Truth cannot afford to indulge in generalisation. Darwin for the greater part of his book Origin of the Species [sic] has simply massed fact upon fact without any theorising, and only towards the end has formulated his conclusion which, because of the sheer weight of testimony behind it, becomes almost irresistible. Yes I have criticised even Darwin's generalisation as being unwarranted. Science tells us that a proposition may hold good in nine hundred ninety-nine cases and yet fail in the thousandth case and thus be rendered untenable as a universal statement. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. View quote
Talcott Parsons
I ran an experiment and I got a result. That's more useful to us than fifty years of theorising. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation. View quote
Takeshi Kitano