No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited. — Douglas Yates Copy Share Image
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Darwin's theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had… — Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevskiĭ Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea we would put Americans' economy in jeopardy based on… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The Earth Speaks, clearly, distinctly, and, in many of the realms of Nature, loudly, to William Jennings Bryan, but he fails to… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he… — Paul Sabatier Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
