Character Quote by Imre Lakatos

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements…

— Talcott Parsons

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe…

— Talcott Parsons

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter…

— Talcott Parsons

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

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The theory must not contradict empirical facts,

— Albert Einstein

It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If…

— Werner Heisenberg

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due…

— Theobald Smith

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

— Talcott Parsons

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

— John Herschel

A theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru