No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited. — Douglas Yates Copy Share Image
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!” — Steven Magee 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
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific… — Arthur Eddington 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
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
No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain… No scientific theory is sacrosanct... — Karl Popper 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 religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no… — Richard P. Feynman 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
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a… — Stuart J. Russell 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
“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
Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism… — 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
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
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 discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece 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
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
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 fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dispute among scientists. It demonstrates its… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which… — Wilhelm Ostwald 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
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is… — Karl Popper 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
I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
