Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
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Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
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.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
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