Benefits Quote by Karl Popper

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the…

— Fischer Black

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

— Jerry A. Coyne

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.

— Halton Arp

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable…

— Imre Lakatos

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

— Robert Shapiro

To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible only if…

— Noam Chomsky

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 only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific…

— Maurice Allais

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

— George Stigler

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to…

— Angus Deaton

Scientists can never be sure about the correctness of their theories. Every theory is just as good as the things it manages to predict…

— Sabelo Lan Mashabela