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Hypothesis Quotes by William Whewell
- The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to…
- The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell…
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at… — Fred Hoyle
- The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper
- The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury