Scientific Theory Quotes

• Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Space, Chaos, Theory

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

  Karl Popper

  Research, Evolution, Metaphysical

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.195, Routledge

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• Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Men, Europe

  Aldous Huxley (1956). "Las obras completas de Aldous Huxley"

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• Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Science, Imagination

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.87, Princeton University Press

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• The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

  Robert L. Park

  Math, Science, Discovery

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• To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  Evelyn Fox Keller

  Science, Mortality, Claims

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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• La gran tragedia de la ciencia: el asesinato de una bella hipótesis por un feo hecho.

  Thomas Huxley

  Belleza, Hermoso, Educación

  "Biogénesis y abiogénesis" (1870)

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• We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Theory, Absolute Truth, Regard

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• Se puede decir que el eterno misterio del mundo es su comprensibilidad.

  Albert Einstein

  Amor, Vida, Dios

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.117, Open Road Media

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  Haga que todo sea lo más sencillo posible, pero no más simple.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirador, divertido, ingenioso

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• La teoría científica que más me gusta es que los anillos de Saturno están compuestos en su totalidad por equipaje de avión perdido.

  Mark Russell

  Inspirador, Hilarante, Divertido Vida

  "Humor y unipersonalidad del viajero frecuente". Libro de George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.

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• No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct.

  Karl Popper

  May, Theory, Certain

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• Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

  John Maynard Smith

  Science, Action, Guides

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• Una teoría científica es una herramienta y no un credo.

  Joseph John Thomson

  Tools, Creeds, Theory

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• Lo importante en ciencia no es tanto obtener nuevos hechos como descubrir nuevas formas de pensar sobre ellos.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Conocimiento, Aprendizaje, Ciencia

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• Razón, observación y experiencia; la santísima trinidad de la ciencia.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Science, Experience, Scientific Method

  The Gods

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• La ciencia es el gran antídoto contra el veneno del entusiasmo y la superstición.

  Adam Smith

  Ciencia, llamas, entusiasmo

  La riqueza de las naciones Bk V, Ch. 1

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• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  Karl Popper

  Funny, Art, Crazy

  1982 Quoted in the Observer,1Aug.

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• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

  Paul Dirac

  Mathematical Equations, Important, Fit

  "Magic numbers: can maths equations be beautiful?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2016.

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• Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Science, Air

  Bertrand Russell (1993). "El citable Bertrand Russell"

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• Cuanto más éxito tiene la teoría cuántica, más tonta parece

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Apariencia, Física

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• Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

  Michael Crichton

  Enough, Skepticism, Situation

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003.

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• Una teoría que no es refutable por ningún acontecimiento concebible no es científica. La irrefutabilidad no es una virtud de una teoría (como se suele pensar), sino un vicio.

  Karl Popper

  Thinking, People, Vices

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.48, Routledge

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• You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Ideas, Two

  "Simulating Physics with Computers". Richard P. Feynman, "International Journal of Theoretical Physics", Volume 21, 1982.

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