Evidence Quote by Isaac Newton

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a…

— J. Willard Gibbs

I do not feign hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and…

— Isaac Newton

As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of…

— Isaac Newton

I feign no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

— William of Ockham

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they…

— Norman Macbeth

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

— Pierre Duhem

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

— Karl Popper

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe