Quote by Henri Poincare

I feign no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish…

— Isaac Newton

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

— Aristotle

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

— Paul Klee

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to…

— Ian Hacking

“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

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

— Wassily Leontief