Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with… — Robert Todd Carroll 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
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem 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
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
Perception is NOT reality. People have always said that - perception is reality. I reject that hypothesis. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two. — William of Ockham Copy Share Image
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by… — Camille Paglia 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
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
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of… — Anthony Standen 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
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace:… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter… — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image