Accommodate Quote by Imre Lakatos

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

— Manuel Castells

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

— Noam Chomsky

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you…

— Michael Shermer

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

“[Modern scientific] theories can necessarily never be more than hypothetical, since their starting-point is wholly empirical, for facts in themselves are always susceptible of…

— René Guénon

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

— Patricia Churchland

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

— Stephen Harper

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

— Francis Crick

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science,…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton