Quotes About Hypothesis

Such, then, are the basics of Popper's methodology for science: You make bold guesses and try your best to show that they are wrong

People generally deal with situations by means of assumptions.

standard model of the ET hypothesis, the aliens are flying nuts-and-bolts spacecraft

After experiencing all sorts of bizarre activity during his research on UFOs, John Keel formulated his "ultraterrestrial" hypothesis, which postulates that Earth has shared living space for millennia with other intelligent beings who interact with humans when they choose to, who are more intelligent than us, and who manipulate our physical and psychic reality for their own obscure agendas.

there is no known experiment, for example, that will distinguish between the simple ET hypothesis and the interdimensional hypothesis without more robust data.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

you can't simply compare a hypothesis to a single competing model and treat that one alternative suggestion as a substitute for all the remaining options.

When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

but if you wish to get better training, you must do something more than that; you must consider not only what happens if a particular hypothesis is true, but also what happens if it is not true. 135e-136a

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

It is for this reason that a scientist constructs hypotheses—suggestions for the cause of an observation. But a hypothesis must never be confused with an explanation—with proof.

This – some say – confirms the hypothesis that each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences, a city without figures and without form, and the individual cities fill it up.

This is where Bayes' Theorem comes in and helps us have a clearer picture. By using the theorem, we are forced to look at all data and update our hypothesis with new evidence.

Now, remember what Bayes' Theorem does: it helps us update a hypothesis based on new evidence.

Bayes' Theorem does: it helps us update a hypothesis based on new evidence.

Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder's vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.

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You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.

Theory can blind observation.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.