Better Quote by Nikola Tesla

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

— Jules Verne

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin…

— Gene Wolfe

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will…

— Claude Bernard

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a…

— William James

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

The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is…

— Robert Hooke

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is…

— John B. S. Haldane

Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know,…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish

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

Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record…

— Robert Winston