Cease Quote by C. S. Lewis

“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

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

“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

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've…

— Alice Roberts

“Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

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

“To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over…

— Trey Ratcliff

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

— Ronald Fisher

It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.

— Richard P. Feynman

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit…

— Bill Bryson