It is the theory which decides what can be observed
Albert EinsteinTags: theory subject-and-object
A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the point of studying the impossible? Only a fool would waste his time. The problem of data in conflict with existing theory cannot be overstated. Arthur Eddington once said you should never believe any experiment until it has been confirmed by theory, but this humorous view has a reality that cannot be discounted.
Michael CrichtonTags: science theory skepticism laws-of-nature
What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?
Kevin MichelTags: success god faith evolution quantum-physics theory metaphysics mathematics mechanism many-worlds many-worlds-interpretation achieve-your-dreams
I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic hypothesis sought in vain for hundreds and thousands of years. The isolation and counting of gaseous ions, on the one hand, which have crowned with success the long and brilliant researches of J.J. Thomson, and, on the other, agreement of the Brownian movement with the requirements of the kinetic hypothesis, established by many investigators and most conclusively by J. Perrin, justify the most cautious scientist in now speaking of the experimental proof of the atomic nature of matter, The atomic hypothesis is thus raised to the position of a scientifically well-founded theory, and can claim a place in a text-book intended for use as an introduction to the present state of our knowledge of General Chemistry.
Wilhelm OstwaldTags: nature theory justification evidence proof chemistry hypothesis atoms scientific-theory matter atomic-theory brownian j-j-thomson j-perrin
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
Denis DiderotTags: world theory proof egg temple topple
It’s one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.
Alastair ReynoldsTags: theory
One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the following objections: an extremely small prior probability merited by the God of theism in light – if that is the right word – of the Problem of Evil; the fact that it is not unreasonable to place a substantial probability on the hypothesis that a future theory will fix those values; and the sheer incoherence of computations of the ‘chances’ of fine-tuning were there no fine-tuner.
Colin HowsonTags: reason philosophy atheism values theory probability hypothesis problem-of-evil coherence atheist-arguments argument-from-design-debunked fine-tuning-debunked god-of-theism
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.
Stephen HawkingTags: theories theory contradiction hypothesis results result experiment prove experiments jack-goldenberg
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
Antoine LavoisierTags: science french theory discovery invention chemistry posterity scientist scientific-theory oxygen-theory
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