Hypothesis Quote by Jorge Luis Borges Download Open image “Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.” — Jorge Luis Borges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hypothesis Interesting May Obligation Reality Science
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 Copy Share Image
Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us — Alan Hale Copy Share Image
There is a kind of belief among my students that things that are true are interesting. But most things that are true are not… — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. — David Douglass Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working. — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges 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
