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“I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.”

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Book:Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.”

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Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage

“Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.”

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Author:Eugenie Scott

“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.”

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Book:Atheism and Theism

Source: Atheism and Theism

“We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

“It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.”

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Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays

“Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.”

“The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. That simply is not true. ... Unlike biological evolution, intelligent design is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school science classes.”

“People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that means. It is also only a theory that the world goes round the Sun - it's just a theory for which there is an immense amount of evidence. There are many scientific theories that are in doubt. Even within evolution, there is some room for controversy. But that we are cousins of apes and jackals and starfish, let's say, that is a fact in the ordinary sense of the word.”

“I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.”

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Book:A Devil's Chaplain

Source: A Devil's Chaplain

“However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.”