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“[W]e compare the result of [a theory’s] computation to nature, … compare it directly with observations, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong. In…

“There are none but temporary Truth-Seekers; a permanent one is a human impossibility; as soon as the Seeker finds what he is thoroughly convinced is the Truth, he seeks no…

“Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.” — Richard Feynman

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.” — Albert Einstein

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” — Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Quote of the Week: “[W]e compare the result of [a theory’s] computation to nature, … compare it directly with observations, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment,…

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” — George Orwell

Quote of the Week: “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.” — Niels Bohr

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.” — Albert Einstein

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” —Albert Einstein

Quote of the Week: “In scientific debate, it is neither power nor authority that should carry decisive weight, but only scientific truth itself” — Ferenc Deák, 1803−1876, Hungarian Stateman [H/t…

Quote of the Week: “One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the…

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert Einstein

“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.” — Albert Einstein

Quote of the Week: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new..” — Albert Einstein

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.” — Albert Einstein

Quote of the Week: “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The ignorant person affirms, the scientist doubts, the wise person reflects.” — Aristotle

Quote of the Week: “…that it is the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some…