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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.… — Thomas Kuhn
- All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because… — 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,… — Hannes Alfven
- The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — 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… — 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… — Marilyn Ferguson
- Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller
- For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — 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… — 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… — Alison Gopnik
- Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.… — Shreya Ghoshal