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hypotheses
«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.»
Author: Edward Teller
| About:
Facts
| Keywords:
hypotheses, hypothesis, novel, statement, suggestion
«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.»
Author: Enrico Fermi
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
confirming, confirms, contrary, discovery, hypotheses, hypothesis, outcomes
«Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.»
Author: Konrad Lorenz
(Zoologist)
| About:
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
hypotheses, hypothesis, suited
«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 are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accepted, all right, aperture, correcting, evidence, hypotheses, perfectly, rigorous, scrutiny, standards, survive
«The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| Keywords:
comparison, hypotheses, hypothesis, prediction, predictions, relevant, validity
«The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
axiom, axioms, deduction, deductions, empirical, hypotheses, logical
«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.»
«It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method.»
«Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
centre, dwells, humanism, hypotheses, hypothesis, in point of fact, perspective, philosophic, shifting, theorem, theorems