Cannot Quote by Michael Shermer

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

— Massimo Pigliucci

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

— John McCarthy

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick

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

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary...

— Kimon Nicolaides

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once…

— Al Gore

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical…

— John von Neumann

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

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

— Karl Popper

“That is the function of theories—to oversimplify, and thus to assist believers in organizing, weighting, and excluding information. Therein lies the power of theories.…

— Neil Postman

Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!"…

— Adam Frank