Far Quote by Isaac Newton

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

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

— Henri Poincare

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

“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

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

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

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

I feign no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.

— Jerry Fodor