Adaptation Quote by Joseph Black

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

— Henri Poincare

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of…

— Ivan Pavlov

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

— Sidney Altman

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

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

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former…

— Henri Poincare

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

— August Wilhelm von Hofmann

So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are…

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

— Nikola Tesla

A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain…

— Anonymous

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

— Leonardo da Vinci

It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute…

— Galileo Galilei