Close Quote by Alice Roberts

“most methods disguise the guessing stage in some fancy language, such as “determine possible root causes.” This is making a list of guesses, and…

— Nat Greene

I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,'…

— Karl Popper

We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

— C. S. Lewis

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make…

— Esther Hicks

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

— David Douglass

“In general, we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it; then we compute the consequences of the guess…

— Richard P. Feynman

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever…

— Charles Pierce

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity…

— William Stanley Jevons

“When there are lots of possibilities, most of the work goes into just locating the true answer - starting to pay attention to it.…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky