Echoing this, Stephen Hawking states, "A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations."
作为回应，史蒂芬·霍金阐述：“如果它满足以下两个要求，就算是好的理论：它必须在只包含一些任意元素的一个模型的基础上，准确地描述大批的观测，并对未来观测的结果，作出确定的预言。