About Manfred Eigen: Manfred Eigen is a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.