
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
Source: The Roman Way (1932), Ch. 1
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.”
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
relating his experimental confirmation of the fine structure spectrum of hydrogen, as reported by [Jagdish Mehra, The historical development of quantum theory, Springer, 2001, 0387950869, 1037]
Dwight Waldo (1978), "Organization Theory: Revisiting the Elephant," Public Administration Review, 38 (November/December): p. 597.
Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
p. 77 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89009314162&view=1up&seq=81
Determinism or Free-will? (1912)
I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
"Evolution as Fact and Theory", pp. 254–55 (originally appeared in Discover Magazine, May 1981)
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983)
"applied economics"
Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 2, Global Falsehoods, p. 27
“Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.”
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in: Association of American Colleges (1955) Liberal education. Vol. 41, p. 430
1950s
Maslow (1954), as cited in: Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Michael G. Walraven (1987). Psychology. p. 119; Also in: Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being. Simon and Schuster, 1962, p. 5.
Variant quote: Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be... It is as if Freud supplied us with the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.'
1940s-1960s