Conclusion Quote by Albert Einstein

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

— Josephine Lawrence

“[Modern scientific] theories can necessarily never be more than hypothetical, since their starting-point is wholly empirical, for facts in themselves are always susceptible of…

— René Guénon

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

— Jean Baudrillard

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is…

— A.J. Ayer

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that…

— Gregory Bateson

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

— Jerry A. Coyne

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

— China Mieville

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

— Eartha Kitt

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

— Simon Critchley

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

— Tehyi Hsieh