How empty is theory in the presence of fact

How empty is theory in the presence of fact

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

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

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

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

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very read more

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

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.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither read more

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.