Famous quotes containing the words set and/or theory:
“I think it better that in times like these
A poets mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The weakness of the man who, when his theory works out into a flagrant contradiction of the facts, concludes So much the worse for the facts: let them be altered, instead of So much the worse for my theory.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)