“The only reason you use a framework or issue tree is to test a hypothesis!” — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations…may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information. — Eugene Fama 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
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Klosterman’s Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _____________________________” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by… — Tim O'Brien 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
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by… — Deborah Eisenberg 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
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“And some scientists and other intellectuals are convinced—too eagerly in my view—that the question of God's existence belongs in the forever inaccessible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
“Lab Report Sheet The Principle: The 101 Dalmatians Principle The Theory: You are connected to everything and everyone else in the universe.… — Pam Grout Copy Share Image
“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Remember, using the framework is not the goal. Testing the hypothesis is.” — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image