Hypothesis Quote by Denis Diderot

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

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

— Thomas Huxley

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

“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

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.”

— Nina Teicholz

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

— Paul Klee

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

— Christopher Monckton

“Once this happens, no matter where I am in the framework, I immediately synthesize, revise my hypothesis, and determine what is the least amount…

— Victor Cheng

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