But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. — A. W. F. Edwards Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as ‘Things just happen. What the hell.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the… — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we… — Arthur Balfour 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
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it.… — Harlow Shapley 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
I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,… — Edmund Pellegrino Copy Share Image
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all… — Carl Sagan 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
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“Remember, using the framework is not the goal. Testing the hypothesis is.” — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
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