Top Hypothesis Quotes
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman
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
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.
Peter Medawar
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
Henry Norris Russell 
Arthur Eddington 
Serge Lang 
Edward Teller 
David Hilbert 
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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 
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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
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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.
William Robertson Smith
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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.
Talcott Parsons
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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.
William B. Riley
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In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Thomas Gold
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If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
David Douglass
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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
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Thomas HuxleyCarl JungDenis DiderotLudwig WittgensteinJean RostandMilton FriedmanAngela CarterAndrew WilesTalcott ParsonsMartin H. FischerWilhelm WundtArthur EddingtonAbraham Joshua HeschelDavid HilbertWilliam Robertson Smith
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