A Quote by Karl Popper

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

Karl Popper

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Karl Popper
Austrian - Philosopher
July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Marianne Moore

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Marianne Moore

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

John McCarthy

I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

Laurie Halse Anderson

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

John Irving

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ernest Gellner

One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.

Adam Riess

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Adeo Ressi

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

Shane Koyczan

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Paul Fleischman

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

Ludwig Wittgenstein

In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.

Michael Shermer

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

Richard Dawkins

physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical.

David Bentley Hart

Judge Laurence Silberman explains the origins of his ruling against the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. He explains, 'It wasn't a right to bear arms granted by the Constitution, it was a right that was protected by the Constitution.'

Laurence Silberman

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

Stephen Hawking

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