Theory Is Blind Quotes

#1. Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

#2. According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.

A. G. Mohan

#3. Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Imre Lakatos

#4. We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

Federica Montseny

#5. Theory can blind observation.

Carol Gilligan

#6. No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

Alice Hegan Rice

#7. The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

Nancy Pearcey