#new theory

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. ↗

— Asa Gray

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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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I have just got a new theory of eternity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#got #i #just #new #new theory

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#experimental #fraternity #moreover #must #new

The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#cannot #colleagues #critics #either #feel