A basic principle of science—of liberal social life—is…

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

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

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

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

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

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

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

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

I feign no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

“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

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

— Karl Popper

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

— Pierre Duhem

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

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

— Cindy Alvarez

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher