If you come up with the theory that your... - Deepstash

If you come up with the theory that your software startup needs 1,000 clients to thrive and start turning a profit, you almost instantly accept it as true, which leads to lots of disappointment, should you fail in spite of reaching that goal.

Hawking says a theory is nothing more than a model, which correctly explains a big number of observations .

This has 2 great benefits:

  1. You can make definite predictions about the future.
  2. The theory can always be disproven, if evidence against it comes up.

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