Quotes About Hypothesis

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

The bold implication of this idea is that the effects of ego depletion could be undone by ingesting glucose, and Baumeister and his colleagues have confirmed this hypothesis in several experiments.

In order to work, the Jesus tomb hypothesis has to claim that the disciples died for something they knew was a lie—in fact, something they themselves had fabricated. Further, it has to acknowledge that none of the disciples defected, even when faced with suffering and horrible deaths, including stoning and crucifix-ion. Is that likely?

What our assessment of the Jesus tomb hypothesis has shown is the danger of publicity-driven efforts that aren't carefully checked.

the Comprehension Hypothesis,12 elaborated by Stephen Krashen in the early 1980s. It holds that one factor above all is responsible for second language acquisition: comprehensible input in that language.

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

It is a capital mistake to develop a premature hypothesis in the absence of hard data.

I pointed out that in no way could this be called an experiment. What were the objectives? Where was the control? What was the hypothesis? And I said he was naive to think there might not be any harm in it. This was not like raising a puppy.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

It's possible," said Superintendent Battle. "It's only a hypothesis, but it's possible." "It is a little more than possible, my friend—it is also probable.

La opinión tan generalizada de que los científicos proceden siempre de un hecho bien demostrado a otro hecho bien demostrado, y nunca se dejan influir por una conjetura no probada, es bastante errónea. A condición de que quede bien claro qué son hechos probados y qué son conjeturas, no existe ningún peligro. Las conjeturas son de suma importancia, porque sugieren posibles vías de investigación.

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.

Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on.

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

A scientific theorum has not been - cannot be - proved in the way a mathematical theorem is proved.

I shall define the God Hypothesis more defensibly: there exists a superhuman, supernatural intelligence who deliberately designed and created the universe and everything in it, including us. This book will advocate an alternative view: any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution.

We can't prove anything in science. But the best that scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried.

hypothesis, the argument 'beneath' (hypo) the surface.

Para conocer los efectos de largo alcance del sistema de género/sexo, primero se debe desmantelar la hipótesis fálica en relación con el inconsciente.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

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