Quotes about Hypothesis

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. Votes: 6

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Votes: 4

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Votes: 4

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. Votes: 4

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Votes: 4

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. Votes: 4

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. Votes: 4

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not. Votes: 4

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. Votes: 4

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. Votes: 4

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action. Votes: 3

When I was in high school I experimented sexually. The experiment was to never have sex with anybody no matter how hard I tried. Success! Hypothesis confirmed. Votes: 3

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts. Votes: 3

There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life. Votes: 3

When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation, see what happens, then I'll draw a conclusion based on the empirical evidence. Hypothesis: I can play basketball." So I'd try. "Conclusion: I cannot play basketball." Votes: 3

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. Votes: 2

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. Votes: 2

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination Votes: 2

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. Votes: 2

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. Votes: 2

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. Votes: 2

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. Votes: 2

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. Votes: 2

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. Votes: 2

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. Votes: 2

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? Votes: 2

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. Votes: 2

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong. Votes: 2

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. Votes: 2

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. Votes: 2

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme. Votes: 2

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. Votes: 2

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis. Votes: 2

I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. Votes: 2

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it. Votes: 2

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. Votes: 2

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis. Votes: 2

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes. Votes: 2

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis. Votes: 0

I have no need for that hypothesis. Votes: 0

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis. Votes: 0

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis. Votes: 0

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis. Votes: 0

In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other. Votes: 0

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one. Votes: 0

Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong. Votes: 0

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. Votes: 0

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. Votes: 0

This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily. Votes: 0

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis. Votes: 0

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking. Votes: 0

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis. Votes: 0

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. Votes: 0

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. Votes: 0

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. Votes: 0

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite. Votes: 0

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. Votes: 0

The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics. Votes: 0

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Votes: 0

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. Votes: 0

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together. Votes: 0

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses. Votes: 0

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! Votes: 0

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. Votes: 0

no one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter. Votes: 0

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. Votes: 0

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. Votes: 0

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy. Votes: 0

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! Votes: 0

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. Votes: 0

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. Votes: 0

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though. Votes: 0

The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith. Votes: 0

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Votes: 0

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed. Votes: 0

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. Votes: 0

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures. Votes: 0

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. Votes: 0

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Votes: 0

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. Votes: 0

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology. Votes: 0

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. Votes: 0

I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information. Votes: 0

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. Votes: 0

The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it. Votes: 0

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. Votes: 0

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. Votes: 0

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous. Votes: 0

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion Votes: 0

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to. Votes: 0

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed. Votes: 0

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist. Votes: 0

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. Votes: 0

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. Votes: 0

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. Votes: 0

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. Votes: 0

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator. Votes: 0

Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Votes: 0

Human mind and body metals appear to be lost through radio frequency exposure and I call this hypothesis: Internal Human Corrosion Votes: 0

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. Votes: 0

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument. Votes: 0

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts. Votes: 0

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested. Votes: 0

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. Votes: 0

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence. Votes: 0

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma. Votes: 0

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. Votes: 0

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. Votes: 0

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. Votes: 0

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality. Votes: 0

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. Votes: 0

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. Votes: 0

A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge. Votes: 0

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world. Votes: 0

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. Votes: 0

In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth. Votes: 0

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition. Votes: 0

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture. Votes: 0

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the road. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. Votes: 0

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts. Votes: 0

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken. Votes: 0

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see? Votes: 0

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson. Votes: 0

I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go. Votes: 0

Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing. Votes: 0

Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level. Votes: 0

The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them. Votes: 0

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies. Votes: 0

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science. Votes: 0

Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity. Votes: 0

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely. Votes: 0

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university Votes: 0

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity. Votes: 0

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis. Votes: 0

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed. Votes: 0

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts. Votes: 0

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. Votes: 0

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis? Votes: 0

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis? Votes: 0

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of known facts and phenomena may be reconciled. Votes: 0

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he shouldfirst immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis. Votes: 0

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not. Votes: 0

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up. Votes: 0

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred. Votes: 0

I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief. Votes: 0

When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis. We can't really blame anyone for losing faith when this occurs Votes: 0

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand. Votes: 0

Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race. Votes: 0

If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want. Votes: 0

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.] Votes: 0

Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding. Votes: 0

Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? Where does the proof use the hypothesis? Votes: 0

...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist. Votes: 0

Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate group selection, even if they do not use the g-word. Votes: 0

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them. Votes: 0

Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars. Votes: 0

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. Votes: 0

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. Votes: 0

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme." Votes: 0