Hypothesis Quotes

323 quotes by 232 authors

When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are… — Lee Smolin
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber
When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong. — Alice Dreger
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. — P.J. O'Rourke
I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at… — Philippe Dauman
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. — C. V. Raman
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other.… — Jules Verne
Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of… — Bruce Lipton
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. — Henry Norris Russell
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong… — William Robertson Smith
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. — Thomas Gold
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing… — Robert Nozick
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that… — Andrew Lo
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous. — Richard Holbrooke
I hate who I was and hate who I have become, so I scream so the pain goes numb, the mirrior reflects my nemesis, Ill… — Timothy Ashmore
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of… — Martin H Fischer
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other… — Robert Nozick
The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin… — Voltaire

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