Accompany Quote by Claude Bernard

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought…

— William Whewell

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

— Max Weber

“same phenomenon and concludes that the phenomenon will always occur. Conclusions obtained by induction seem well warranted”

— Morris Kline

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to…

— William Whewell

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

Certain signs precede certain events.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

— Jacob Bigelow

“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away…

— Aristotle

“Contingency cannot be a contingent phenomenon. All unforeseen circumstances have unknown causes.”

— Elmar Hussein

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of…

— Ivan Pavlov

“Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,”

— Gavin de Becker