Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific…

Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do…

— Richard Lewontin

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation…

— Louis Pasteur

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things…

— Cormac McCarthy

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on…

— Peter D. Mitchell

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life…

— Domenico Gnoli

I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia…

— James Howard Kunstler

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you…

— Michael Shermer

“A New Theory of Biology,” was the title of the paper which Mustapha Mond had just finished reading. He sat for some time, meditatively…

— Aldous Huxley

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess…

— Michio Kaku

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

— Truman Capote

What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory…

— Ken Wilber

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth…

— Kurt Lewin

“Indoctrination,” Michael Simpson replied. “We still base our science on the Theory of Relativity. Not because it is one hundred percent correct, but because…

— Erik Hamre

Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The…

— David C. Cassidy