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In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time… — Theobald Smith
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
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is… — Charles Caleb Colton
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate,… — Karl Popper
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their… — Gene Wolfe
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which… — Harry S. Truman
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.… — Benoit Mandelbrot
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
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in… — Michael Faraday
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be… — Gustave Eiffel
To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field… — Thomas Kuhn
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always… — Albert Einstein
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief… — Benjamin Rush
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting… — Ian Stevenson
Skills make you rich, not theories. — Robert Kiyosaki
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts… — Donald Woods Winnicott
The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore. — Justus von Liebig
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics,… — Adolphe Quetelet
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and… — Justus von Liebig
I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and… — Mike Krzyzewski
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis

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