Theories Quote by William Whewell Download Open image “It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.” — William Whewell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Predict Phenomena Test True Theories Theories Account Theory True Theories
Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing… — Brian Schmidt Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. — David Antin Copy Share Image
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. That's… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“Theory shows a way to a goal, but it is not the goal. Theory offers security, but there are no secure theories. Theories shed… — D.A. Blankinship Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary. — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“If one of the five theories describes our univers, who lives in the other four worlds” — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet. — Simon Travaglia Copy Share Image
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