Assumption Quote by Robert Nozick

“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect…

— Marc Bloch

“Even science is inductive, relying on observations and best explanations, not always deductive conclusions.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

— Eric Gill

“Testing assumptions allows you the power to create possibilities.”

— Lisa Mininni

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

— Karl Popper

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of…

— A.J. Ayer

It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability…

— David M. Kreps

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

— Ian Hacking

What is now proved was once imagined.

— William Blake

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary…

— Issac Newton

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone