Hypothesis Quotes

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.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

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.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

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.

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.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.

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.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

I feign no hypotheses.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

I do not feign hypotheses.

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.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

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.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

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

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

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

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

I have no need for that hypothesis.

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.

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