A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.