Hypothesis Quotes
Hypothesis Quote of the day
We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.
I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.
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.
To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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.
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
Perception is NOT reality. People have always said that - perception is reality. I reject that hypothesis.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
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.
The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled.
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
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.
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.