Hypothesis Quotes

323 quotes by 232 authors

It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in… — Ezra Pound
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. — Thomas Sydenham
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most… — Oliver Lodge
It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact,… — Harlow Shapley
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be… — Peter Medawar
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot… — Hermann von Helmholtz
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses. — Isaac Newton
An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we… — Arthur Eddington
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of… — Robert Hooke
Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to… — Paul Feyerabend
Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker;… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the… — Galileo Galilei
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral… — Ronald Fisher
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford
These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed… — Walter Bradford Cannon
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma. — Serge Lang
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. — Serge Lang

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