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In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.
— Jonathan Rauch
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.
— Augustus De Morgan
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Being patient will continue to remain something ridiculous as long as tomorrows continue to be something no more than a hypothesis!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!
— Martha Beck
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
— Jean Rostand
Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Probably the simplest hypothesis ... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
— Arthur Eddington
The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
— Albert Einstein
A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations.
— Robert Bringhurst
I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
— Alfred Werner
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
— Denis Diderot
Spotted with stale blood, but with her hypothesis confirmed. Sydney Clarke could raise the dead.
— V.E Schwab
Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on.
— Richard Dawkins
Theory A widely accepted hypothesis that stands the test of time. Theories are often tested, and usually not rejected.
— Jean Brainard
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.
— Reid Hoffman
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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.
— John Tillotson
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
— Nick Matzke
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
— Ian Hacking
Hypothesis: Intentional or not, movement to a beat = dancing.
— Gordon Korman
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
— Henry Norris Russell
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis
obviously an unproven one
that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges
obviously an unproven one
that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges
The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.
— Stephen D. Krashen
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
— Chris Argyris
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
— William James
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
— Allen Newell
The Bible is not a tested hypothesis, it is not a theory but it is God's Breath.
— Moroaswi Tumiso Victor
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
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
— Helen Fisher
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
— Konrad Lorenz
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
— H.L. Mencken
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
— Richard Holbrooke
That's the beauty of the famous scientific method. You observe your subject, ask questions, and then research before establishing a hypothesis.
— Claudia Burgoa
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
— Pierre Duhem
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
— William Jennings Bryan
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.
— Barbara Hambly
Don't start weaving a social hypothesis in front of an angry woman holding a blade.
— Terry Pratchett
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
...[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust.
— Mary Doria Russell
There are no proofs. There are only agreements
— Paul W. Silver
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
— John Maynard Keynes
[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.
— Carl Sagan
Should you start with a hypothesis and analyze data in a way that supported it, or start with the data and sift through it for a useful hypothesis?
— Robert Littell
I do not feign hypotheses.
— Isaac Newton
The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.
— J. W. N. Sullivan
You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.
— Carole Maso
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
— William James
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
— Albert Einstein
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
— Sidney Altman
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.
— Coreen T. Sol
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.
— Daniel D. Polsby
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
— Nate Mendel
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
— Serge Lang
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
— David Hilbert
Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.
— Antonino Zichichi
Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
— David Deming
Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.
— Michael Crichton
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.
— Norwood Russell Hanson
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
— Wilhelm Wundt
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
— Will Durant
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
— Karl Popper
Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
— Raoul Dufy
The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell".
— Terry Pratchett
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
— Andrew Jackson Davis
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
— Thomas Gold
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
— Mary Wollstonecraft
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
— David Douglass
Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a better.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Hypothesis: Brothers and sisters forge family bonds through a complex byplay of accusations and insults.
— Gordon Korman
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
— Richard Dawkins
No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.
— William Beveridge
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
— Lynn Margulis
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
— Thomas Huxley
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
— Boris Sidis
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
— Milton Friedman
Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
— Pierre Laplace
This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.
— Johann Heinrich Lambert