I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of… — Mary Hesse Copy Share Image
The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it… — William James Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed,… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it… — Denis Diderot 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
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
