A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific… — Amit Goswami Copy Share Image
“Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in… — carl sagan Copy Share Image
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to… — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw… — Sidney Altman 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
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
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied.… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
“I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art.… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Well, it [evolution] is a theory, it is a scientific theory only, and it has in recent years been challenged in the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“There are many other innovations in Boscovich's detailed treatise, but we are interested here in drawing attention to just this one point:… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous 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
“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 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
“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 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
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
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