The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which…

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought…

— William Whewell

Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions…

— Stephen Stigler

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger…

— Claude Bernard

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

— Robert M. Pirsig

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