Assuming Quote by David Bohm

It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater…

— Albert Einstein

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that…

— Antoine Lavoisier

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is…

— William Hazlitt

Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but…

— Paul Feyerabend

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of…

— Robert S. Mulliken

The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility…

— Albert A. Michelson

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

— Anonymous

The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where it proved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek