Quotes About Theory

Ideology is the science of idiots.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.