France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Once you have enough insight to state a refined hypothesis, you’ll want to do one of two things: (1) Work through the… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas… — Fred M. Vinson Copy Share Image
Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
“The tragedy has been so uncommon, so complete and of such personal importance to so many people, that we are suffering from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. — Antonino Zichichi Copy Share Image
All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. — Nick Matzke Copy Share Image
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. — William James Copy Share Image
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence. — Willie Soon Copy Share Image