A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.
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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.
quote by Marvin Harris
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A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
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We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
quote by Kenneth Miller
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We are flexible and alive,
We are flexible and alive, outside of any known pattern, theory, worldview, medical, scientific data, observational studies, spiritual path, practice. Find your rhythm, your pattern, your space, the spaces, the spaces that are right for you.
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
quote by Wilhelm Reich
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Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
quote by Peter Hammill
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Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
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The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet -- a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's curriculum.
George F. Will in Newsweek (4 July 2005)
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
quote by Mark Russell
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The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
quote by James Tobin
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The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
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Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
quote by Richard P. Feynman
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
quote by Talcott Parsons
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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
quote by Sidney Altman
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Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
quote by Michael Polanyi
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The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
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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.
quote by Aldous Huxley
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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.
quote by Jimmy Swaggart
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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