Definition of "scientific theory" [scientific theory]

• A theory that explains scientific observations (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• ""Biological Analogies in History," a subject which his lifelong interest in natural history and his considerable reading in scientific theory made appropriate."
• "IT is an easy matter to accept upon authority a given scientific theory and bring to its support certain selected evidence, but quite another to carefully observe and report phenomena, inspired, influenced and guided indeed by the scientific-theory but drawing conclusions no wider or deeper than individual insight warrants."