"Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their……" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep."
More Hypotheses Quotes
- True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as… — Cleveland Abbe
- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan… — Bertrand Russell
- As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to… — Isaac Newton
- The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than… — William Whewell
- What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating… — R. Buckminster Fuller
- I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as… — Karl Popper
- Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences.… — Claude Bernard
- Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by… — Thomas Huxley
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close… — Albert Einstein
- The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,… — Karl Popper
- All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they… — Ernst Mayr
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as… — John Dewey