Hypothesis quotes
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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
-- Andrew Wiles -
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
-- Angela Carter -
An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.
-- Arthur Eddington -
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
-- August Wilhelm von Hofmann -
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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
-- Bergen Evans -
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
-- Boris Sidis -
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
-- Cleveland Abbe -
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
-- David Douglass -
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The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
-- David George Hogarth -
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
-- Gautama Buddha -
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
-- Henri Poincare -
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.
-- Imre Lakatos -
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The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.
-- J. W. N. Sullivan -
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
-- Jean-Francois Lyotard -
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
-- Joan Robinson -
In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.
-- Jonathan Rauch -
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
-- M. King Hubbert -
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 only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
-- Milton Friedman -
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
-- Nick Matzke -
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I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
-- Paul Klee -
I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.
-- Philippe Dauman -
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
-- Pierre Duhem -
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 -
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I have no need for that hypothesis.
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace -
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
-- PZ Myers -
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
-- Randa Abdel-Fattah -
Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
-- Raoul Dufy -
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Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.
-- Robert K. Greenleaf -
Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.
-- Seth Klarman -
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
-- Sidney Altman -
If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.
-- Thomas Huxley -
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From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
-- Wilhelm Wundt -
no one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
-- William Beveridge -
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
-- William James -
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
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The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.
-- William Whewell -
This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.
-- Johann Heinrich Lambert -
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.
-- Willie Soon
