Asks Quote by Paul Halmos

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

— Christopher Monckton

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose…

— Martin H. Fischer

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

“Scientific hypotheses are always tentative; they are designed to be held only so long as they conform to the evidence. Proponents of the theistic…

— Keith Parsons

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

— Edward de Bono

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

“So you don’t want to believe?” “With science, what I want is irrelevant. Proof of a hypothesis is all that matters.”

— A.G. Riddle

“Exactly. The person who comes up with the theory is the one who has to prove it,”

— Haruki Murakami