I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than…

The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the…

— Peter Medawar

“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no…

— Peter B. Medawar

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has…

— Harold Jeffreys

Any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull or piffling problems yield dull or piffling answers.…

— Peter Medawar

It can be said with complete confidence that any scientist of any age who wants to make important discoveries must study important problems. Dull…

— Peter Medawar

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts…

— Thomas Huxley

“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few…

— Bill Bryson

Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add…

— John Forbes Nash

In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are…

— Peter Medawar

Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to…

— Peter Medawar

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

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