Hypothesis Quotes

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A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often… — Henry Petroski
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
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
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed. — Norwood Russell Hanson
The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the… — Gottfried Leibniz
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these… — Isaac Newton
What is the fundamental hypothesis of science, the fundamental philosophy? We stated it in the first chapter: the sole test of the validity of any… — Richard P. Feynman
Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number… — Claude Bernard
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived. — Reza Aslan
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the… — Igor Stravinsky
Contrary to Pikettyâ€™s rentier hypothesis, I donâ€™t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of… — Bill Gates
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish… — Stefan Zweig
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. — H. L. Mencken
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and… — Robert Nozick
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many… — John William Draper
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. — Bergen Evans
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. — Nate Mendel

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