Abandon Quote by William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

— Thomas Huxley

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

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be…

— John Stuart Mill

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

— Jonathan Rauch

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

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one…

— Edward Teller

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

— Carl Sagan

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

— Denis Diderot

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

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.”

— Nina Teicholz