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
Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Most people are ready to believe… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Our assent to the hypothesis implies that it is held to be true of all particular instances. That these cases belong to… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with… — James Madison 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
“The publication of the Darwin and Wallace papers in 1858, and still more that of the 'Origin' in 1859, had the effect… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess,… — Stephen Stigler 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
In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by… — Imre Lakatos 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
Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
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