Architect Quote by Ian Hacking

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.”

— Samir Okasha

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

— Anonymous

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is…

— Albert Einstein

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

— Henri Poincare

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

“The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.”

— Walter Isaacson

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient,…

— Thomas Gilovich

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity…

— William Stanley Jevons

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