Hypotheses Quotes

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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or… — Albert Einstein
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong. — Francis Collins
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. — Robert M. Pirsig
What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us… — Carl Sagan
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a… — Jonathan Stroud
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beautyâ€”by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.â€”to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. Thatâ€™s perfectly all right: itâ€™s the aperture to finding out whatâ€™s right. Science is a self-correcting… — Carl Sagan
I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all… — Milton Friedman
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell… — William Whewell
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses. — Martin Gardner
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect… — William Jennings Bryan
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In… — Greg Graffin
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of… — Stanley B. Prusiner
To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. — Jean Monnet
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of… — Benjamin Cardozo
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. — John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time. — David Eagleman
When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true… — Huston Smith
First of all, I must explain that my hypotheses on homosexuality is quite simple if we do the math; many mammals, including us, have practiced… — Johnny Luckett

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