Conditions Quote by August Wilhelm von Hofmann

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

— Christopher Monckton

The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.

— Karl Popper

A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our…

— Joseph Black

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

— Johannes Kepler

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of…

— Ivan Pavlov

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

— Richard Holbrooke

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

— Paul Klee

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

— Edward de Bono

I feign no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe…

— Talcott Parsons

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington