What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
“Other, more technically adroit people would soon generate closer approximations of reality. What mattered was (a) it was a rational, testable hypothesis;… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
Toby Tyrrell unravels the various formulations of Gaia and explains how recent scientific developments bring the hypothesis into question. His criticisms are… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
“the Comprehension Hypothesis,12 elaborated by Stephen Krashen in the early 1980s. It holds that one factor above all is responsible for second… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in… — Dave Soldier Copy Share Image
It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It's not like you're closing the old doors and that investigators working away in a laboratories on a unique hypothesis are no… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the… — William James Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much… — William James Copy Share Image
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that… — Albert Camus 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
Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Cities never flourish alone. They have to be trading with other cities. My new hypothesis shows why. But also in trading with… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced.… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from… — Gerald A. Kerkut Copy Share Image
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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