Imre Lakatos quote: "Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism."

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
MANFRED EIGEN

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
YOGI BERRA

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
CHUCK REID

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
MANFRED EIGEN

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
YOGI BERRA

Grades are not a primal basis to estimate ones capability in the field of work. Stereotypes are just...
LAURE96

ALHEMICAR
PAOLO KOELJO

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.
WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Gut?”
“General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.
DAN BROWN

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationsh...
JAMES MEADE

A falsifiable theory is one that makes a specific prediction about what results are supposed to occu...
AUSTIN L. HUGHES

Marge, I agree with you -- in theory. In theory, communism works. In theory.
DAN CASTELLANETA

found common denominators between game theory principles and those of Israeli tradition.
ROBERT AUMANN

If future blood tests indicate the cells are indeed churning out the enzyme, this entire endeavor wi...
ANTHONY PAYNE

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
WALT WHITMAN

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theor...
DAVID BAKER

The Theory of Evolution.
CHARLES DARWIN

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
ANONYMOUS

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on...
MAX PLANCK

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.
STEPHEN HAWKING

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cu...
JUDITH BUTLER

Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.
ALAN GUTH

Everything looks better with my eyes closed.
RICK SPRINGFIELD

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it d...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

On the theory of the soul
DAVID HUME

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance
MORRIS KLINE

Don't confuse "hypothesis" and "theory." The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the corre...
MARTIN H. FISCHER

I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalyti...
THOMAS R. INSEL

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

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was th...
E. O. WILSON

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC

After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory...
JOHN HARSANYI

The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eter...
HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN

M-Theory: The Mother of All Superstrings.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the corre...
MARTIN H. FISCHER

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
ALEXANDER CALDER

The mathematics of strategy and competition is Game theory.
LILY CHATTERJEE

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in pri...
RICHARD DAWKINS

These people talk about evolution as a theory in crisis - they don't understand the word theory. In ...
ALAN MUNRO

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
IMMANUEL KANT

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
AGATHA CHRISTIE

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the worl...
CATHARINE MACKINNON

All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been...
RICHARD DAWKINS

For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory ...
EDMUND PHELPS

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
ANDREW YOUNG

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all...
ROY H. WILLIAMS

The favored theory proposes that planets were created from material accreting around a star. Around ...
BOHDAN PACZYNSKI

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.
A.E. SAMAAN

The 'harmonious world' theory ... will help dispel doubts in the international community about China...
YE XIAOWEN

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics
ALBERT EINSTEIN

It is the theory that decides what can be observed
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is v...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
ED HOWE

I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousan...
THOMAS A. EDISON

Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
VOLTAIRE

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it ma...
MANFRED EIGEN

Life is so unlike theory.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as ...
DENIS DIDEROT

How empty is theory in the presence of fact
MARK TWAIN

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as s...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ...
BUDDHA

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
HAROLD S. GENEEN

A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
ED HOWE

[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.
SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither...
KARL POPPER

Nobody understands quantum theory.
RICHARD FEYNMAN

Jacques' theory about the injured guys is even when they're healthy, they're not ready, ... They've ...
DOUG WEIGHT

Our theory is if it's not broke, don't fix it.
MARC DANLEY

Please remind me to finish my act of disappearing numerical theory as I may disappear before finishi...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.but a bush in the hand is worth four of the birds.
RYAN CZARNECKI

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't a...
RICHARD FEYNMAN

We bring together theory and application at the New Center.
ALISON BROWN

Ultimately, in its collapse, Laos was important because it proved the validity of the so-called 'dom...
MICHAEL JOHNS

The problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the...
SAMIR MATHUR

First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and...
WILLIAM JAMES

Our goal with this year's '100' is to highlight a broad range of innovations taking place in the the...
ANDREW K. REESE

I don't want to be the test case for that theory.
ANDREW POTTER

It's only a theory, but we believe the protein escapes from dying, infected cells nearby and then en...
ANDREA CERUTTI

In theory, ... We'll see about that.
JIM JARMUSCH

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself i...
JONAS SALK

We want best efforts guided by theory.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or posit...
JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as '...
GILBERT RYLE

In theory, we should finish third in the group,
DAVID MURRAY

The theory behind the paper is that actual chewing stimulates a neuronal and hormonal reflex that he...
DR. MICHAEL HARRIS

It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breat...
GILLES DELEUZE

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and i...
GILLES DELEUZE

Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

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Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

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