Facts Quote by Talcott Parsons

“Science requires both observation and comprehension. Without observation there are no facts to be comprehended; without comprehension science is mere documentation. The basis for…

— Occam s razor

Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose.…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

— Karl Popper

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already…

— William Whewell

“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy.…

— Nancy Pearcey

Theory can blind observation.

— Carol Gilligan

In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.

— Austin Osman Spare

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright

Observation always involves theory.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by…

— Albert Einstein