Contrary Quote by David Douglass

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

— M. H. Abrams

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

— Tom Bethell

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

— Lewis Wolpert

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that…

— Gregory Bateson

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick

Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

— Edward de Bono

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

— Augustus De Morgan

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the…

— Fischer Black