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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
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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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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.
Warren Buffett
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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
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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
Gautama Buddha
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economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
Joan Robinson
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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
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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
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Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
Stephen Hawking
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Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
William Jennings Bryan
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No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
William Beveridge
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Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.
Seth Klarman
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The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
PZ Myers
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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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Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.
Augustus De Morgan
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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
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
Isaac Newton
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Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
Karl Popper
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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
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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
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Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
Raoul Dufy
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My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Helen Fisher
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One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
David Douglass
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
Novalis
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
Sidney Altman
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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
Mary Wollstonecraft
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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
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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
Freeman Dyson
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What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.
Barbara Hambly
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The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.
Willie Soon
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Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.
Stephen Hawking
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The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
Albert Einstein
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The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
Richard Dawkins
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
William James
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I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
Paul Klee
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Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
H. L. Mencken
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In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.
Jonathan Rauch
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God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
Bergen Evans