“God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much… — William James Copy Share Image
Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency;… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. — Nate Mendel Copy Share Image
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant… — George Soros Copy Share Image
You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and… — Ronald Graham Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
