Hypothesis Quotes

323 quotes by 246 authors

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great… — Samuel P. Huntington
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. — Sidney Hook
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort… — Gilbert Ryle
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a… — Charles Lyell
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth. — Fred Hoyle
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge. — Joseph Black
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. — Marilyn vos Savant
I have no need for that hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of… — William Robertson Smith
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of… — J. C. R. Licklider
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But… — Richard Rohr
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and… — Freeman Dyson
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is… — Leonard Susskind
Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some… — David Douglas
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy. — Daniel D. Polsby
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number… — David George Hogarth
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. — David Douglass
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. — David Douglass
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. — David Douglass
Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. — Henry Edward Armstrong

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