Quotes and Sayings About Hypothesis
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
