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
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
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
My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into… — John Ziman 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
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein 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
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing… — Anonymous 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
“Where scientific observation addresses all phenomena existing in the real world, scientific experimentation addresses all possible real worlds, and scientific theory addresses… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word… — Albert Einstein 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
...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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying… — Geoffrey West 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
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of… — James Bryant Conant 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
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
Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
