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A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world. -- Alison Gopnik
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths. -- Karl Popper
My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds. -- Hilary Kornblith
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. -- Asa Gray
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers. -- Marilyn Ferguson
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat. -- Nevill Francis Mott
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat. -- Nevill Francis Mott
Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress. -- Thomas Kuhn
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world. -- Stanislaw Lem
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world." -- Stanis?aw Lem
We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. -- Wilhelm Reich
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful. -- Dean Ornish
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified. -- Richard Dawkins
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. -- James Tobin
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. -- Peter D. Mitchell
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. -- Peter Hammill
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion. -- James Heckman
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating. -- Sam Trammell
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory. -- Talcott Parsons
If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany. -- Bruce Lipton
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. -- Jimmy Swaggart
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. -- Aldous Huxley
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way. -- Steve Martin
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect. -- Marvin Harris
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest. -- Geoffrey West
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. -- Gregory Benford
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. -- John Maynard Smith
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sounds to biologists as absurd as denying relativity does to physicists. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories. -- Albert Einstein
Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity. -- Virgil Miller Newton
There are two theories of evolution. There is the genuine scientific theory; and there is the talk-radio pretend version, designed not to enlighten but to deceive and enrage. -- Edward Humes

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