Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Douglass

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

We set out to test a promising but unproven hypothesis that has proven to be less promising than we anticipated.

It is a hypothesis that we are looking at.

Edward de Bono

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

Novalis

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Henri Poincare

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

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

Isaac Newton

I do not feign hypotheses.

Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

James J. Gibson

The hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Raoul Dufy

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

Sidney Altman

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

Stephen Hawking

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