Credit Quote by Jean Rostand

This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

“only 10 million of the required 250 million cubic meters of earth had yet been removed. The undertaking is a vast one, far exceeding…

— Helen Josephine Sanborn

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

— Anonymous

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory…

— Ernst Mayr

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided…

— Andrew Hodges

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once…

— Al Gore

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

— Jonathan Rauch

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald

“Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.”

— Paul Hoffman

Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by…

— Augustus Pitt Rivers

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler