Hypothesis Quotes

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.

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.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

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

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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.

I have no need for that hypothesis.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

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

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.