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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared ...
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyse, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this ...
The acceptance of a theory as true does involve a personal choice in a way that a law does not. Different people do differ about t ...
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
A law explains a set of observations; a theory explains a set of laws. The quintessential illustration of this jump in level is th ...
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young ...
Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which ...
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