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
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
Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis:… — Dick Costolo 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
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
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton 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
The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We… — Dennis McKenna Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
“I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy. — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space… — Brian Foote 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
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it… — William James Copy Share Image
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
