Being true Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one…

— Edward Teller

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings,…

— Harlow Shapley

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be…

— John Stuart Mill

[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted…

— Ronald Fisher

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

— David Douglass

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.

— Karl Popper

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality…

— James Jeans

A fact is a proposition of which the verification by an appeal to the primary sources of our knowledge or to experience is directand…

— Chauncey Wright