Answers Quote by Freeman Dyson

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

— Albert Einstein

“The textbook version is simple: experimenters find out things in the world, either by seeing them or by making them happen. Theorists try to…

— Konstantin Kakaes

[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

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor…

— Karl Popper

“I call it theory-induced blindness: once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult…

— Daniel Kahneman

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing…

— Brian Schmidt

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

— William Whewell

If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.

— Albert Einstein

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

— Karl Popper

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

— Nan Goldin

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

— Albert Einstein

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

— Anonymous