“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsFactsWould BeChangeFourChangedTheoryBecomingHundredConstantRadicalNow And ThenBecoming MoreReconstructionScientific TheoryGravitation Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.” WayChangeMemoriesObjectsTheoryAssumingDeceivingOur Memories Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.” FactsChangeNumbersOpinionEconomyGenerationsTheoryEconomicsDetailsObservationPersist Author:Adam Smith