To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein — William James Copy Share Image
Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“Everything you do in customer development is centered around testing hypotheses.” — Cindy Alvarez Copy Share Image
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a… — Allen Steele Copy Share Image
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
“A basic principle of science—of liberal social life—is that we kill our hypotheses rather than each other .” — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“It can’t be stressed enough that science produces nothing but hypotheses, models, simulations and approximations. There is nothing true about it. It… — Mike Hockney Copy Share Image
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
“In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding… — Issac Newton Copy Share Image
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“We are unable to discount the hypotheses that the world began three years ago.” — Nagaru Tanigawa Copy Share Image
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Rule No. 6: Design Experiments and Test to Validate Your Hypotheses” — Steven Gary Blank Copy Share Image
