Hypothesis Quotes

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

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.

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.

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

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.

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

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

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

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

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

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.'

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

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

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