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Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Henri Poincare
Hypothesis
Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.225, Modern Library

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

H. L. Mencken
Framed, Hypothesis, Accounts
"The American Mercury" Magazine, February 1926.

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

Edward de Bono
Come Up, Hypothesis, Criticise

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Men, Atheism, Hypothesis

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

Carl Sagan
Inability, Hypothesis, Prove

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

Boris Sidis
Psychology, Psycho, Hypothesis
Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”

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

Bergen Evans
Want, Hypothesis, Observation
The Natural History of Nonsense A Tale of a Tub

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.

Arthur Eddington
Stars, Science, Hypothesis
Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.21, Cambridge University Press

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

Albert Einstein
Goal, Embrace, Hypothesis

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