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
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
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. — Barbara Hambly 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
“Deviations from standard results are not failures, but opportunities for new questions to be asked and ideas to be tested.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here… — Fred Hoyle 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
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
The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning… — Horace-Benedict de Saussure Copy Share Image
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For… — Isaac Newton 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
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses.… — Paul Davies 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
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
Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted,… — Thomas Huxley 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
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low… — Sidney Hook 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
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
