Abandon Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

— Karl Popper

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've…

— Alice Roberts

I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,'…

— Karl Popper

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

— Sophocles

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

— Peter Abelard

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever…

— Charles Pierce

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

— Henri Poincare

“The practice of guessing so obviously fails in detective work that it’s almost shocking that we guess when we have important problems to solve.”

— Nat Greene

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of…

— Humphry Davy

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

We must distinguish judging from guessing.

— Ernest Sosa