Criteria Quote by 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

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories…

— Marvin Harris

“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state…

— Peter L. Berger

The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a…

— Abraham Maslow

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if…

— Karl Popper

Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in…

— Herbert Marcuse

When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)…

— Stephen Jay Gould

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have…

— John Polkinghorne

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

— Kary Mullis