Hypothesis Quotes

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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
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! — Mary Wollstonecraft
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition.… — Gustave Flaubert
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.… — Victor Pelevin
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from… — Robert M. Pirsig
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… — Francis Crick
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source… — R. D. Laing
That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it… — Esther Hicks
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those… — Tim O'Brien
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
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of… — David Hume
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which… — Milan Kundera
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
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant… — Louis de Bernieres
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
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just… — Michael Polanyi
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great… — Catherynne M. Valente
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I… — Isaac Asimov
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

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