Hypothesis Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace Download Open image “I have no need for that hypothesis.” — Pierre-Simon Laplace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hypothesis Inspirational Love Needs
You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères. ( Man follows only phantoms .) { His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan .}” — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}” — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
If an event can be produced by a number n of different causes, the probabilities of the existence of these causes, given the event… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms. — Pierre-Simon Laplace 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
