Arthur Conan Doyle Quote

The sole purpose of physical theory is to provide a representation and classification of experimental laws; the only test permitting us to judge a physical theory and pronounce it good or bad is the comparison between the consequences of this theory and the experimental laws it has to represent and classify.


The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Part II, Chapter VI (p. 180), Princeton University Press. 1954


The sole purpose of physical theory is to provide a representation and classification of experimental laws; the only test permitting us to judge a...

The sole purpose of physical theory is to provide a representation and classification of experimental laws; the only test permitting us to judge a...

The sole purpose of physical theory is to provide a representation and classification of experimental laws; the only test permitting us to judge a...

The sole purpose of physical theory is to provide a representation and classification of experimental laws; the only test permitting us to judge a...