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
“Atheism is the default position in any scientific inquiry, just as a-quarkism or a-neutrinoism was. That is, any entity has to earn… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams 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
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
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind that the literature on climate change overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis that climate change is caused… — Richard Tol Copy Share Image
All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will… — Joseph Dalton Hooker 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
“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By… — H.L. Mencken 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
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
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
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at… — David Frum 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
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
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger 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
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 materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter… — John Dewey 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
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
