Sentence examples for theory to be wrong from inspiring English sources

Einstein, asked what his reaction would have been if the experiment had showed his theory to be wrong, serenely replied, "Then I would have been sorry for the dear Lord; the theory is correct".

Though it's one thing for theories to be wrong – no father-in-law culprit, no "five horsemen" – it's another for overwrought writing to magically reverse seven hours of entertaining bleakness.

Evolution does not have to be right for alternative theories to be wrong.

I didn't expect all the theories to be wrong, but there's motion going on in the planet we did not anticipate," said Juno mission principal investigator Scott Bolton, according to New Scientist.

After some reading, I realized that the reigning theory had to be wrong.

His big development theory was that big development theories tend to be wrong".

"The reality, and I think both of the authors would agree, is that many of the details of their theory are going to be wrong; and it is, at this point, just a theory," said Dr. Matthew Belmonte, a neuroscientist at Cornell University.

This theory turned out to be wrong.

The 1998 theory turned out to be wrong.

The idea of the cool-down seems to have originated with a popular theory — now known to be wrong — that muscles become sore after exercise because they accumulate lactic acid.

Their theory turned out to be wrong, "but the point is that she was trying," Reich says.