Acceptance Quote by Max von Laue

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

— George Stigler

There is no complete theory of anything.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

— Isaac Asimov

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor…

— Karl Popper

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth…

— Kurt Lewin

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the…

— Werner Heisenberg

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme…

— Pieter Zeeman

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no…

— Steven Weinberg

The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

— Stephen Hawking

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

— Douglas Yates

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

— Agatha Christie

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

— Niels Bohr