"What the use of P [the significance level]……" — Harold Jeffreys

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• True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as… — Cleveland Abbe
• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins… — Jerome Bruner
• To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a… — Angela Carter
• Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a… — Sidney Altman
• I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan… — Bertrand Russell
• All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one.… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
• Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of… — Julian Huxley
• Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection… — Carl Sagan
• It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic… — Richard Dawkins
• It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain… — John Stuart Mill
• As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to… — Isaac Newton

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