Holding Quote by David Eagleman

The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember…

— Carol Tavris

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a…

— Serge Lang

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

— Sidney Altman

“Scientific hypotheses are always tentative; they are designed to be held only so long as they conform to the evidence. Proponents of the theistic…

— Keith Parsons

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

— Thomas Huxley

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I…

— Elie Wiesel

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is…

— Alice Dreger

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.

— Robert Barany

“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

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

— Lisa Randall