Hypothesis Quote by Johann Heinrich Lambert Download Open image “This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.” — Johann Heinrich Lambert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hypothesis Parallels
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“The only part of evolution in which any considerable interest is felt is evolution applied to man. A hypothesis in regard to the rocks… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share Image