Conclusion Quote by Bill James

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and…

— Raphael Gasson

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due…

— Theobald Smith

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

— Paul Feyerabend

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to…

— Richard M. Nixon

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

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to…

— William James

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

— Francis Crick

Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.

— Paul Feyerabend

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

— Agatha Christie

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

— David Antin

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

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

— Isaac Asimov