Hypothesis Quotes

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

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.

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

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.

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

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

I do not feign hypotheses.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

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

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.

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

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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