Accounts Quote by Oliver Heaviside

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

— George Santayana

There is no knowledge without theory.

— W. Edwards Deming

Any theory is better than no theory.

— Fuller Albright

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

Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

— Manuel Castells

Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there…

— Christopher Moore

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

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

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

— Talcott Parsons

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

— Francis Crick

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

— Marilyn vos Savant