Working Hypothesis Quotes
- It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks… — Richard Dawkins
- The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
- 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.… — Gerald A. Kerkut
- What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination — Jean-Francois Lyotard
- 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
- 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
- Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. — Konrad Lorenz
- My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. — P.J. O'Rourke
- Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. — Henry Norris Russell
- Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what… — Jean-Francois Lyotard