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  1. n. a theory that explains scientific observations

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  • “Biological Analogies in History," a subject which his lifelong interest in natural history and his considerable reading in scientific theory made appropriate.”

    Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography

  • “IT is an easy matter to accept upon authority a given scientific theory and bring to its support certain selected evidence, but quite another to carefully observe and report phenomena, inspired, influenced and guided indeed by the scientific-theory but drawing conclusions no wider or deeper than individual insight warrants.”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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  1. theory

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  1. nebular hypothesis
  2. newton's theory of gravitation
  3. indeterminacy principle
  4. quantum theory
  5. functionalism
  6. relativity
  7. wave theory of light
  8. evolutionism
  9. cell theory
  1. Big Bang theory
  2. germ theory
  3. uncertainty principle
  4. atomism
  5. planetesimal hypothesis
  6. theory of indicators
  7. einstein's theory of relativity
  8. information theory
  9. Gestalt psychology
  1. kinetic theory of gases
  2. theory of electrolytic dissociation
  3. supersymmetry
  4. association theory
  5. kinetic theory
  6. wave theory
  7. theory of gravity
  8. ostwald's theory of indicators
  9. arrhenius theory of dissociation
  1. theory of games
  2. theory of organic evolution
  3. theory of inheritance
  4. corpuscular theory
  5. gravitational theory
  6. associationism
  7. atomic theory
  8. cell doctrine
  9. theory of gravitation
  1. game theory
  2. organicism
  3. corpuscular theory of light
  4. theory of evolution
  5. configurationism
  6. relativity theory
  7. theory of dissociation
  8. theory of relativity
  9. continuous creation theory
  1. undulatory theory
  2. steady state theory

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  1. theory of evolution
  2. theory of organic evolution
  3. evolutionism
  1. post-impressionism
  2. neoimpressionism
  3. Ptolemaic
  1. glacialism
  2. seismometry
  3. pseudoscience
  1. empiricism
  2. XXXXVIIII
  3. physical chemistry
  1. inversion
  2. scientific method
  3. Bacon
  1. invert
  2. scientific theory
  3. phenomenalism
  1. speculative

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