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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in read more
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may read more
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility - it may be right but irrelevant.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, read more
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
