Hypothesis Quotes
323 quotes by 232 authors
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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
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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
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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
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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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
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
— C. V. Raman
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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
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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
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Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
— Henry Norris Russell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
— Richard Holbrooke
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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
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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
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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
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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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