Hypothesis Quotes

• Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

  

  William of Occam
  • Facts
  • Simplicity
  • Hypothesis

• Any working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point—the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Physics
  • Brains
  • Hypothesis

• 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.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Reason

• 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.

  

  Spencer Wells
  • People
  • Language
  • Data

• I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Exists

• There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Judgment
  • Mathematics
  • Babbler

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Natural
  • Infinite
  • Explain

• So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Fool

• Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis invented for a purpose on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Result

• It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As a hypothesis about localization of function, the statement is not quite right – the brain and not the eye is surely the most important organ involved ... Whether it is beautiful or ugly or just conveniently at hand, the world of experience is produced by the man who experiences it.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • World
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Science
  • Authority
  • Judgement

• The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Problem
  • Mathematician
  • Riemann

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

  

  Serge Lang
  • Firsts
  • Drug
  • Scientist

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

  

  William Beveridge
  • Believe
  • Experiments
  • Hypothesis

• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Together
  • Science
  • Reality

• On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

  

  William James
  • God
  • Principles
  • Theism

• 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.

  

  William Whewell
  • Science
  • Accepting
  • Ought

• An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Man
  • Hypothesis
  • Bullied

• Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

  

  William James
  • Faith
  • Hypothesis

• You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.

  

  Carole Maso
  • Conclusion
  • Argue
  • Bore

• 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.

  

  William James
  • Enough
  • Property
  • Phenomenon

• 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.

  

  Wilhelm Wundt
  • Mental
  • Date
  • Large

• 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.

  

  William Bell Riley
  • Science
  • Evolution
  • Fact

• If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.

  

  Ellen Langer
  • Respect
  • Answers
  • Experiences

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