Accepting Quote by Arthur Eddington

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

— Paul Feyerabend

It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also…

— Joao Magueijo

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is…

— Claude Bernard

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

— Albert Einstein

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

— John Lennon

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

— George Bernard Shaw

Even things that are true can be proved.

— Oscar Wilde

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

— Agatha Christie

“Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.”

— Dan Brown

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the…

— Fischer Black