Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way.
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.