- All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. -Stephen Schneider
- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -Dandemis
- Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. -Francis Bacon
- Never fall in love with your hypothesis. -Peter Medawar
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts. -Arthur Conan Doyle
- A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong. -Francis Crick
- The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting. -Richard Feynman
- To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. -Charles Darwin
- It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Mark Twain
- Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. -Thomas Jefferson
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer
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