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This dimension groups scientific theories by the era in which they were first proposed. Wikipedia notes that "as additional scientific evidence is gathered, a scientific theory may be modified and ultimately rejected if it cannot be made to fit the new findings," a process of revision that has unfolded differently in every era of science. Browsing by proposed era lets a visitor compare theories that arose in the same period.

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20th century
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Abegg's rule

20th century

Abiogenesis

20th century

Amdahl's Law

20th century

Analysis of Algorithms

20th century

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

20th century

BCS Theory

20th century

Bell's Theorem

20th century

Big Bang Theory

20th century

Bohr Model

20th century

Bose-Einstein Statistics

20th century

Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory

20th century

Cage effect

20th century

CAP Theorem

20th century

Chemiosmosis

20th century

Chromosome Theory of Inheritance

20th century

Church-Rosser Theorem

20th century

Church-Turing Thesis

20th century

Cladistics

20th century

Clonal Selection Theory

20th century

Collision Theory

20th century

Competitive Exclusion Principle

20th century

Continental Drift

20th century

Cook-Levin Theorem

20th century

Cosmic Inflation

20th century

Dark Energy

20th century

Dark Matter

20th century

Deterministic Chaos

20th century

DNA Double Helix

20th century

Drake Equation

20th century

Ecosystem Concept

20th century

Electron-Pair Bond Theory

20th century

Electroweak Interaction

20th century

Endosymbiotic Theory

20th century

Evolution as fact and theory

20th century

Falsificationism

20th century

Fermi-Dirac Statistics

20th century

Food Chain Concept

20th century

Founder Effect

20th century

Gaia Hypothesis

20th century

Game Theory

20th century

Gene-Centred View of Evolution

20th century

General Relativity

20th century

Generative Grammar

20th century

Genetic Drift

20th century

Giant-Impact Hypothesis

20th century

Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

20th century

Grand Unified Theory

20th century

Halting Problem

20th century

Handicap Principle

20th century

Hardy-Weinberg Principle

20th century

Higgs Mechanism

20th century

Hodgkin's Insulin Structure

20th century

Hubble bubble (astronomy)

20th century

Hubble's Law

20th century

Hygiene Hypothesis

20th century

Information Theory

20th century

Kin Selection

20th century

Kolmogorov Complexity

20th century

Lewis Acid-Base Theory

20th century

Linguistic Relativity

20th century

Mantle Convection

20th century

Many-Worlds Interpretation

20th century

Mass-Energy Equivalence

20th century

Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

20th century

Modern Synthesis

20th century

Molecular Clock

20th century

Moore's Law

20th century

Multiregional Origin of Modern Humans

20th century

Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

20th century

Neyman-Pearson Lemma

20th century

Nocturnal bottleneck

20th century

Noether's Theorem

20th century

Numerical Weather Prediction

20th century

Octet Rule

20th century

P versus NP Problem

20th century

Panspermia

20th century

Paradigm Shift

20th century

Parental Investment Theory

20th century

Parity Violation

20th century

Pauli Exclusion Principle

20th century

Photoelectric Effect

20th century

Plate Tectonics

20th century

Polar Front Theory

20th century

Prion

20th century

Protein Sequencing

20th century

Punctuated Equilibrium

20th century

Quantum Chromodynamics

20th century

Quantum Electrodynamics

20th century

Quantum Entanglement

20th century

Quark Model

20th century

Recent African Origin of Modern Humans

20th century

Red Queen Hypothesis

20th century

RNA World Hypothesis

20th century

Schrodinger Equation

20th century

Snowball Earth

20th century

Special Relativity

20th century

Steady State Theory

20th century

Stellar Nucleosynthesis

20th century

Stored-Program Architecture

20th century

String Theory

20th century

Supersymmetry

20th century

Systems Ecology

20th century

Thermohaline Circulation

20th century

Third Law of Thermodynamics

20th century

Three-Domain System

20th century

Transition State Theory

20th century

Turing Machine

20th century

Uncertainty Principle

20th century

Valence Bond Theory

20th century

Vine-Matthews-Morley Hypothesis

20th century

VSEPR Theory

20th century

Wilson Cycle

20th century

Yang-Mills Theory

20th century

Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

20th century
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1. Online Etymology Dictionary: theory
Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary, theory entry, general sense
Quote, Online Etymology Dictionary, theory entry, general sense
The general sense of "an intelligible explanation based on observation and reasoning" is from 1630s.
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