Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Everything that people say is testable.
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.