There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but… — David Hume Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily. — Johann Heinrich Lambert 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
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. — Nick Matzke Copy Share Image
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very… — Walter Bradford Cannon Copy Share Image
