I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing… — Saharon Shelah Copy Share Image
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because… — Harold Jeffreys 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
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
Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. — A. W. F. Edwards Copy Share Image
“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. — Augustus De Morgan 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
To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
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