I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that…

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

— Claude Bernard

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be…

— Louis de Bernieres

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

— Max Weber

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated…

— Victor Pelevin

From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

— David Hume

“The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to the rocks…

— William Jennings Bryan

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

— Konrad Lorenz

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many…

— Charles Darwin

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

— Andrew Wiles

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

— David Hilbert