Assuming Quote by Aristotle

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

— William of Ockham

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary…

— Aristotle

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

— Henri Poincare

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

— Thomas Huxley

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

— Wassily Leontief

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

— Christopher Monckton

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

— David Corn

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally…

— Gregory Bateson

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a…

— David Hume

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is…

— Paul Halmos