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• If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
  -- Maier's Law 1. The bigger the theory, the better....
• Maier's Law: If the facts don't conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.
  Corollaries: (1) The bigger the theory, the better....
• If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of. Maier's Law
• Correspondence Corollary: An experiment may be considered a success if no more than half your data must be discarded to obtain correspondence with your theory.
• The bigger the theory, the better. -- Maier's First Corollary
• The bigger the theory the better.
• Woodward's Law: A theory is better than its explanation.