Cases Quote by William Whewell

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

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick

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

— Baruch Spinoza

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you…

— Michael Shermer

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been…

— Talcott Parsons

A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that…

— Susan Stebbing

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 worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

— William James

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

— Austin Osman Spare

In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe,…

— Auguste Comte

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

— John Herschel