A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

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A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant.

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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

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