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The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
Deutsch, David
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy—but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
Deutsch, David
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
Alfred Jules Ayer
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Buechner, Professor William
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Saki
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Popper, Karl
The totality of all alephs cannot be conceived as a determinate, well-defined, and also a finished set. This is the punctum saliens, and I venture to say that this completely certain theorem, provable rigorously from the definition of the totality of all alephs, is the most important and noblest theorem of set theory. One must only understand the expression "finished" correctly. I say of a set that it can be thought of as finished (and call such a set, if it contains infinitely many elements, "transfinite" or "suprafinite") if it is possible without contradiction (as can be done with finite sets) to think of all its elements as existing together, and to to think of the set itself as a compounded thing for itself; or (in other words) if it is possible to imagine the set as actually existing with the totality of its elements.
Cantor, Georg
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.
Ibsen, Henrik
Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.
Kent "Sparky" Gregory
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