Scientific Theories Quotes

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Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not… — Thomas Kuhn
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical… — Nevill Francis Mott
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may… — Hannes Alfven
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control… — S. T. Joshi
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. TheÂ… — Alexis de Tocqueville
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached… — Marilyn Ferguson
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political… — Geoffrey Miller
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem
The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith
A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those… — Alison Gopnik
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the… — Shreya Ghoshal
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences… — Asa Gray

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