Action-quotes Quote by Marion Bekoe

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger…

— Claude Bernard

“Any theory that makes progress is bound to be initially counterintuitive.”

— Daniel C. Dennett

“Scientific progress isn’t a parade of miraculously wrong theories—it’s an optimistic snowball, gathering the structure of reality as it rolls.”

— Amanda Gefter

“Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.”

— Carlo Rovelli

“Clues put us on the right path toward a correct theory. Strong evidence is that which subsequently allows us to trust whether the theory…

— Carlo Rovelli

“For every theory there has to be counterevidence--otherwise science wouldn't progress.”

— Haruki Murakami

“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced when he…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Real science is recognizing an outcome, not always about reinforcing your theory.”

— Jeffrey Fry

“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for a living.”

— Howard Wainer

“Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs.”

— Karl Marx

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

— Manly Hall

“Exactly. The person who comes up with the theory is the one who has to prove it,”

— Haruki Murakami