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Tag Name "Hypothesis" (227)

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The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
Pierre Duhem
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Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.
Robert Todd Carroll
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
Novalis
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One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases
Simon Newcomb
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The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
Allen Newell
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The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
Wilhelm Wundt
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Will Durant
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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 Bell
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An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.
William C. Brown
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Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.
William James
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
William James
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The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.
Albert Einstein
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Evolution is not truth it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
William Jennings Bryan
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The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.
William Kingdon Clifford
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
Alan Alda
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The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.
Peter Haggett
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The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.
William Whewell
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
Adolphe Quetelet
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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
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The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.
William James
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What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.
A. W. F. Edwards
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Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.
Michael Crichton
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Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.
Brian Foote
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