Hypothesis quotes
59 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason."
"All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses."
"Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it."
"Every explanation is after all an hypothesis."
"I feign no hypotheses."
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"Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses."
"I do not feign hypotheses."
"One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis."
"As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so"
"God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist."
"Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one."
"[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true."
"Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis."
"The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses."
"A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough."
"Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis."
"To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein"
"Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory."
