Quotes About Hypothesis

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.

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

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.

The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

Let the experiment be made.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.