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We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
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.
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.