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
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 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
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we… — Isaac Newton 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
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus 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
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
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar 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
“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
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,'… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance… — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes 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
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error… — Ellis Paul Torrance 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
