Scientific Theory Quotes

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions... A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or refute it.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

It is unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom.

The criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

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 dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he is certainly one of the most influential.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.

I don’t think anything about Einstein’s theory because I don’t understand it.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

Evolution, as such, is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Creationists make it sound as though a “theory” is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

If you aren't confused by quantum physics, then you haven't really understood it

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.