Hypothesis Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

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.

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 hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

I have no need for that hypothesis.

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.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

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

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.

This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.

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

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