After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis… — David Hume 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
If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
Of course, it is worth it to take the time to think carefully through your assumptions, and ensure you at least have… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a… — William James Copy Share Image
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we… — Scott Lively 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
Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis:… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
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