Contrary Quote by Enrico Fermi

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis,…

— Enrico Fermi

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

— William Kingdon Clifford

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make…

— Esther Hicks

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

— Michael Polanyi

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit…

— Bill Bryson

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

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

— David Douglass

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 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