The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. — A. W. F. Edwards Copy Share Image
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed. — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
Perception is NOT reality. People have always said that - perception is reality. I reject that hypothesis. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. — Andrew Jackson Davis Copy Share Image
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a… — Allen Steele Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You… — Louis de Bernieres 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 states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
As scientists you must keep your minds open. There is no use having blind faith in Me, in Sahaja Yoga, in anything… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the… — Colin Howson Copy Share Image
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image