Hypotheses Quotes
105 quotes by 76 authors
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Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful…
— George Soros
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I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were…
— George Soros
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Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But…
— Richard Rohr
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The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number…
— David George Hogarth
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Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear.
— Henry Edward Armstrong
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It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.
— Henri Poincare
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Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when…
— Lisa Randall
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Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We are free to…
— Dennis McKenna
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The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
— Milan Kundera
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Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system…
— John Michael Greer
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Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which…
— David G. McAfee
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Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we…
— Ellen Langer
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Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
— Lisa Randall
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Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
— Henri Poincare
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Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.
— Robert Mayer
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People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from…
— Anthony de Jasay
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HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius.…
— Rob Brezsny
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