Evidence Quote by Steven Weinberg

“The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently…

— Stephen Hawking

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

— Albert Einstein

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

— Stephen Hawking

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to…

— Johannes Stark

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

— Douglas Yates

“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.”

— Alastair Bonnett

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— George Stigler

There are no excuses for theoretical physicists not to perform and deliver.

— Ashoke Sen

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

We need useless theory more than ever today.

— Slavoj Žižek

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

— Kurt Lewin