Explanation Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein Download Open image “Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Hypothesis
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. — Richard Dawkins 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
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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