Hypothesis Quotes

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley
Beautiful Great Science Ugly Fact Hypothesis Great Tragedy Tragedy
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
Me Word Believe Difficult Must Hypothesis Know Either Then Certain Reason Belief Thing Difficult Thing Need
I have steadily endeavoured 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 facts are shown to be opposed to it. Charles Darwin
Mind Free Every Steadily Give Facts Hypothesis Soon Opposed However Subject Up Any Cannot Forming Much Shown Keep Resist Beloved
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. Abraham Joshua Heschel
God Logical Darkness Light Assumptions Immediate Insight Something He Hypothesis Self-Evident Sought Derived Reason
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? David Hilbert
First Slept Thousand Would Would-Be Thousand Years Having Hypothesis Proven Were Been Years Question After Awaken
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. Enrico Fermi
You Measurement Result Made Possible Outcomes Hypothesis Discovery Contrary Then Two
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. Konrad Lorenz
Good Day Morning Science Every Day Pet Before Young Breakfast Research Every Good Morning Hypothesis Discard Him Exercise Scientist Keeps
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Milton Friedman
Experience Validity Relevant Only Hypothesis Test Prediction Comparison
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' Ronald Graham
You Somewhere Down Correct Would Would-Be Able Proof Could Computer Hypothesis True Understand Said Line Discouraging Yes Very Ask
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. P. J. O'Rourke
Culture Stupidity Stupid Constant More Hypothesis Get Cannot Working Popular Popular Culture
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. Alice Dreger
Work Hard Work Science Sometimes Out Willingness Find Hypothesis Takes Wrong Most Said Cherished Done Your Hard Actually
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. Angela Carter
Future Nothingness Say Those Must Hopes Hypothesis Contend Pin Which Your Now Here
Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed. Anne Wojcicki
Crazy You People Beauty Nothing Think Changed Valley Silicon Silicon Valley Sacred Generally Part Hypothesis Encourage
Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that. Apollo Robbins
Memories Our Everything Perceptions Construct Fact Through Absolutes Never Hypothesis Because Always Confirmed Really Should Skills Display
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. Arthur Eddington
Matter Slow Slow Process Simplest Hypothesis Annihilation May Process
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. Charles Lyell
Long Meeting Hypothesis Period Southern Thames Northern Suggested
You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. Christopher Monckton
You Only Hypothesis Prove Improve Any Disprove
I often feel like a nutty professor, like I'm going to try this experiment and see if it works. My hypothesis is, people in the West can absorb African women stories without any shaken or stirred mixer. It can come directly from the source. Danai Gurira
Women People Try Experiment Nutty See Shaken Directly Absorb Hypothesis Feel Come Like Without Mixer Source West Stirred Any Going Often African Stories Works Professor
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. David Douglass
Truth Finds Observations Hypothesis Making Comparing
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. David Douglass
Love Fall Absolutely Neutral Hypothesis Essential Should
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. Denis Diderot
Sometimes Will Shake More Push Hypothesis Go Than Order As Far As Anything Far Necessary
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. Edward Lawrie Tatum
Stated Evidence Has-Been Direct Cases Gene Hypothesis Supported Particular Underlying Been Repeatedly Controls Experimental Which Production Each Function Specificity Number
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? Frank Tipler
Life Beautiful Ugly Correct Adopt More Physicists Hypothesis Know Likely Least Than Eternal Eternal Life Working Why Why Not
To learn something from your data, the forming of a hypothesis lies with the human being, which turns into a query, which becomes a result. The problem is that there are too many queries to make, too many questions to ask. Gurjeet Singh
Problem Human Being Result Too Lies Something Data Hypothesis Make Learn Becomes Questions Human Being Which Forming Ask Turns Your Many
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed. Helen Fisher
You Conservative Values Relaxed More Hypothesis Clear Simply Very Republicans
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. Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge Age Our Enter Status Postmodern Hypothesis Altered Known Cultures Working Societies
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