Quotes About Theory

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

Science is uncertain.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.

Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.