Hypothesis Quotes

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My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the… — Zeno of Elea
Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. — Jorge Luis Borges
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose,… — Bertrand Russell
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be… — Jorge Luis Borges
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not… — Isaac Newton
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. — Jerome Bruner
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard… — Romain Rolland
Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes
Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis. — Raoul Dufy
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at… — Jacques Monod
What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. — A. W. F. Edwards
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it… — Leonhard Euler
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested. — August Wilhelm von Hofmann
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. — Thomas Huxley
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific… — William James
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over… — Luce Irigaray
Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful… — George Soros
I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were… — George Soros
The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical,… — Rupert Sheldrake

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