The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish… — Isaac Newton 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
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
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
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action. — Allen Newell 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
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen.… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries… — J. Willard Gibbs 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
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown 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 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
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all… — Carl Sagan 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
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