Hypothesis Quote by Stephen Hawking

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many…

— Stephen Hawking

Certainly in order to understand the natural world one needs clarity, logic, and the capacity for theory building. But that understanding tends to improve…

— Talal Asad

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you…

— Hermann Bondi

“[Modern scientific] theories can necessarily never be more than hypothetical, since their starting-point is wholly empirical, for facts in themselves are always susceptible of…

— René Guénon

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the…

— Albert Einstein

A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater…

— Albert Einstein

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

— Michael Shermer

No particular theory may ever be regarded as absolutely certain.... No scientific theory is sacrosanct...

— Karl Popper

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

— Thomas Malthus