Famous quotes containing the words scientific and/or theories:
“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)