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If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. — Richard P. Feynman
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about… — Steven Weinberg
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT. — Imre Lakatos
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they… — Karl Popper
Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;… — Karl Popper
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction.… — Arthur Eddington
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into… — Luigi Pirandello
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside… — Thomas Huxley
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which… — Ernest Holmes
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds… — John Owen
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,… — John Owen
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit. — John Owen
We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I… — Charles Spurgeon

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