Computer Quote by David E. Goldberg

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

— Karl Popper

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...

— Abraham Pais

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

— Phillip Johnson-Laird

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

— David Hestenes

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by…

— Albert Einstein

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

— Albert Einstein

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

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff…

— Clayton Christensen

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species…

— David Deutsch

Every skill, methods, strategies will only be a theory, unless you proof it to yourself that's true and work

— Hendra Hilman

A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of…

— Stephen Hawking

"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.

— Robert Aumann