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- The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes…
- Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained…
- For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any…
- Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically…
- The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and…
- There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.…
- Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
- The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic…
- If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago…
- After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling…
- There is no doubt in my mind that the literature on climate change overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis that climate change is caused by humans. I…
- What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
- I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
- Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
More Hypothesis Quotes
- Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. — Sidney Altman
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein
- True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe
- 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
- 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 appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,… — John Stuart Mill