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.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

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.

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

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.

I do not feign hypotheses.

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

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

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

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

I feign no hypotheses.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

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

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.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.