Hypothesis Quotes

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I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis,… — Serge Lang
I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects… — John A. Keel
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from PhÃ¦nomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the… — Isaac Newton
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in… — William James
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison… — Charles Sanders Peirce
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. — Paul Klee
An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even… — Max Planck
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality. — Max Planck
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that… — Karl Popper
The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction… — Galileo Galilei
According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful to recur to… — Robert Barclay
The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence… — Carol Tavris
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,… — William Hazlitt
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. — Milton Friedman
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast,… — Paul Davies
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. — Denis Diderot
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
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. — Arthur Eddington
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then… — Enrico Fermi

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