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# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought
# Theory
>One of the more important ideas of this book is that of the (empirical,
>or informative) content of a theory: **the more they prohibit, the more they say.**
>~ [[Karl Popper|Popper]]
>A physical theory, therefore, is not just the set of its formulae, such as E = mc2, nor is it just the collection of its testable predictions; it is a conjectured explanation, which includes, for example, the informal descriptions of what E, m, and c are in that formula, and why they are related in that way.
>~ [[Chiara Marletto]]
You need both the [[Mathematic|mathematical]] equation and the descriptions of every part of it in natural language.