A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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.
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.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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.
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.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.