Hypothesis Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.