Correctness Quote by Sabelo Lan Mashabela

A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong.

— Tom Bethell

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

— Jerry A. Coyne

Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go…

— Richard Hamming

The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something…

— Vannevar Bush

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

— Isaac Asimov

A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific…

— Maurice Allais

If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the theory didn't…

— Clayton Christensen

It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also…

— Joao Magueijo

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a…

— Dr Carl Sagan

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous…

— Richard P. Feynman

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

— Milton Friedman

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin