Founding Quote by Albert Einstein

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we…

— Steven Weinberg

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for…

— Francois-Joseph Servois

A theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor…

— Karl Popper

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

— Kenneth R. Miller

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are…

— William Stanley Jevons

The current situation with regard to theory is odd and maybe defined by a paradox.

— Simon Critchley

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a…

— Satoshi Kanazawa

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin