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- It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact,…
- A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on…
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- True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe
- The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the… — Jerome Bruner
- To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here… — Angela Carter
- Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. — Sidney Altman
- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell
- All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. — Julian Huxley
- Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new… — Carl Sagan
- It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but… — Richard Dawkins
- It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,… — John Stuart Mill
- As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton