Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating… — William Robertson Smith 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
Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,… — Edmund Pellegrino Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human… — Edgar Mitchell 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
In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic.… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance,… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is… — Robert M. Pirsig 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 is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those… — Lesslie Newbigin 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
Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey 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
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
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be… — William James Copy Share Image
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