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
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
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
An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger… — Arthur Eddington 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
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the… — Anonymous 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
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of… — Werner Heisenberg 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
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in… — Erwin Chargaff 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
A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you… — Paul Ehrenfest 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
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
Of course, it is worth it to take the time to think carefully through your assumptions, and ensure you at least have… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses.… — Paul Davies 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
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
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
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
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image