Building Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

“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

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

— Henri Poincare

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

— Michael Crichton

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

I feign no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to…

— Ian Hacking

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

— Constance Fenimore Woolson