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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.