Been Quote by Stanley B. Prusiner

Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature,"…

— Thomas Huxley

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought…

— William Whewell

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

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

— Louis Pasteur

It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can…

— Anonymous

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

— Augustus De Morgan

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is…

— Alice Dreger

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then…

— Enrico Fermi

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

— Sidney Altman

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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