Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing…

— Henri Poincare

“Everything you do in customer development is centered around testing hypotheses.”

— Cindy Alvarez

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they…

— Norman Macbeth

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

— Pierre Duhem

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

— Karl Popper

“At first he found it amusing. He coined a law intended to have the humor of a Parkinson’s law that "The number of rational…

— Robert Pirsig

I feign no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.

— Jean Monnet

We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’…

— Ludwig Buchner

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

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

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo