No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A theory must be tempered with reality.
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.
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.
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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.