Hypothesis Quotes

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Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occamâ€™s razor, which… — David G. McAfee
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life,… — Frank J. Tipler
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To… — Steven Pinker
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis...… — James Clerk Maxwell
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we… — Ellen Langer
I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and… — Michael Jackson
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them… — George Soros
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct. — Lisa Randall
Hypotheses are what we lack the least. — Henri Poincare
Assume that your drive to experience pleasure isn't a barrier to your spiritual growth, but is in fact essential to it. Proceed on the hypothesis… — Rob Brezsny
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion — PZ Myers
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic… — Erwin Chargaff
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking… — Arthur Conan Doyle
For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a… — Gary Sloan
It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes,… — Ronald Graham
Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. — Robert Mayer
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from… — Anthony de Jasay
The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in… — Fred M. Vinson

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