Accounts Quote by Claude Bernard

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's…

— Steve Martin

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger…

— Claude Bernard

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the…

— Albert Einstein

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

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 just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton

A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates…

— Albert Einstein

[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's…

— David Quammen

Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen…

— Noam Chomsky

A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create…

— Alison Gopnik