Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but…

You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences

— Anonymous

You can avoid reality;but u cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality

— Ayn Rand

All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which…

— Umberto Eco

Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

— William of Ockham

... 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

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

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

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