I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“The problem with logic,” Prime said, “is that sometimes you are forced to believe your own hypothesis, even if you don’t want” — Brian McClellan Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen.… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant… — George Soros 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
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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
Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency;… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
“The God hypothesis, for example, allows you to have an unparallelled understanding of absolutely everything while knowing absolutely nothing.” — Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad.… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another… — Thomas Gold Copy Share Image
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. — Nate Mendel Copy Share Image
Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. — David Deming Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action. — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a… — Robert Nozick 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
The word elief 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
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
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