Background knowledge Quote by Norwood Russell Hanson

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

Observation always involves theory.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

— Albert Einstein

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

— Bergen Evans

A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings,…

— Harlow Shapley

“It is the theory which decides what can be observed”

— Albert Einstein

Observations always involve theory.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter…

— Talcott Parsons

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