Hypotheses Quotes

105 Hypotheses quotes by 76 unique authors

Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to… — Paul Halmos
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and… — Unknown Author
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem
The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic… — Unknown Author
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses. — Albert Einstein
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with… — Carl Sagan
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses… — Herbert Marcuse
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are… — Norman Macbeth
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. — Gautama Buddha
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. — Jorge Luis Borges
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be… — Jorge Luis Borges
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not… — Isaac Newton
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard… — Romain Rolland
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes
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
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
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. — Marilyn vos Savant
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
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
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
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. — Henry Edward Armstrong
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
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
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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