Change Quote by Talcott Parsons

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements…

— Talcott Parsons

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

— Thomas Hobbes

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches…

— Alfred North Whitehead

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

— Baruch Spinoza

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

— George Santayana

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter…

— Talcott Parsons

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

— Oliver Heaviside

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

— Edwin Boring

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

— Thomas M. Disch

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

— Justus von Liebig

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

— Thomas de Quincey