Experiments Quote by Imre Lakatos

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

— Jerry A. Coyne

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you…

— Hermann Bondi

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

Any theory is better than no theory.

— Fuller Albright

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

— Thomas Malthus

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

— Anonymous

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

— Jean-Martin Charcot

In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact…

— Claude Bernard

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

— Carl Whitaker

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

— Josephine Lawrence

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

— Noam Chomsky

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

— Peter D. Mitchell