When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the… — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that… — Wilhelm Johannsen Copy Share Image
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the… — Michael Jensen Copy Share Image
Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity.… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair… — William James Copy Share Image
We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I experimented sexually. The experiment was to never have sex with anybody no matter how hard… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience… — William James Copy Share Image
“These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital… — Ezra Pound 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
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
It wouild 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
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole Copy Share Image
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