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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.
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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.
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
It is the theory that decides what can be observed
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
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way read more
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
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.
