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Hypothesis Quotes
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
Thomas Gold
Age
Being
Virtue
Hypothesis
Burned
Choosing
Clearly
Stake
Timid
Another
Been
Would
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Bruner
Work
Laziness
Most
Valuable
Associated
Coins
Conclusion
Courageous
Fertile
Guess
Guessing
Hypothesis
Leap
Penalized
Schools
Shrewd
Somehow
Thinker
I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
Alfred Werner
Work
Forward
Atoms
Scientific
Arrangement
Hypothesis
Molecules
Putting
Started
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Nate Mendel
Stand
Ideas
Stand Up
About
AIDS
Hypothesis
Scientific
Scrutiny
Based
Does
Popular
Up
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'
Ronald Graham
You
True
Down
Understand
Correct
Discouraging
Hypothesis
Proof
Able
Ask
Computer
Could
Line
Said
Somewhere
Very
Would
Would-Be
Yes
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
Serge Lang
I Am
Opinion
Difference
Tell
Hole
Hypothesis
Intent
Scientific
Standards
Ability
Am
Between
Concerned
Fact
Ground
Here
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
David Douglass
Truth
Making
Hypothesis
Comparing
Finds
Observations
I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.
Philippe Dauman
You
Look
Lose
Like
Discussions
Hypothesis
Topic
Every
Happens
Show
Would
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
Enrico Fermi
You
Result
Possible
Discovery
Contrary
Hypothesis
Measurement
Outcomes
Made
Then
Two
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge
Age
Our
Status
Altered
Cultures
Enter
Hypothesis
Postmodern
Societies
Known
Working
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
Beautiful
Science
Great
Ugly
Fact
Great Tragedy
Hypothesis
Tragedy
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.
Andrew Lo
Change
Time
Like
Own
Adaptive
Depending
Engaged
Hypothesis
Institutions
Investors
Markets
Population
Species
Develop
Economic
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To learn something from your data, the forming of a hypothesis lies with the human being, which turns into a query, which becomes a result. The problem is that there are too many queries to make, too many questions to ask.
Gurjeet Singh
Your
Result
Questions
Being
Data
Forming
Hypothesis
Turns
Ask
Becomes
Human
Human Being
Learn
Lies
Make
Many
Problem
Something
Too
Which
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
Richard Holbrooke
You
Face
Your
Dangerous
Certainty
Hypothesis
Theories
Against
Complex
Other
Situations
Test
Very
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Simple
Way
Disease
Animals
Consequently
Demonstrate
Hypothesis
Observation
Reproduce
Sufficient
Verify
Been
Even
Had
Possible
Which
Would
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz
Good
Morning
Science
Breakfast
Discard
Exercise
Good Morning
Hypothesis
Keeps
Pet
Research
Scientist
Before
Day
Every
Every Day
Him
Young
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller
Science
Simple
Believe
Innocent
Believes
Effective
Guilty
Hypothesis
Novel
Statement
Suggestion
Everyone
Fact
Found
No-One
Unless
Until
Wants
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Carl Jung
Me
Believe
Difficult
Know
Belief
Certain
Difficult Thing
Either
Hypothesis
Must
Need
Reason
Then
Thing
Word
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.
Wilhelm Wundt
Life
Back
Must
Observation
Beginnings
Date
Highly
Hypothesis
Mental
Probable
Regard
Standpoint
Far
Large
Then
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
C. V. Raman
Matter
Physics
Constitution
Modern
Atomic
Built
Edifice
Fundamental
Hypothesis
Molecular
Up
Whole
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
Best
Science
Truth
Better
Defined
Hypothesis
Suited
Next
Open
Way
Working
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Personality
Intelligence
Facts
Only
All The Facts
Anxious
Communicate
Difficulty
Fits
Hypothesis
Simplest
Straightforward
Surviving
Able
Most
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Helen Fisher
You
More
Values
Conservative
Clear
Hypothesis
Relaxed
Republicans
Simply
Very
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
Henry Norris Russell
Law
Hypothesis
Natural
Working
Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
Martin H. Fischer
Science
Purpose
Possible
Theory
Confuse
Correct
Establishment
Explanation
Former
Hypothesis
Latter
Very
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
True
More
Must
Evolution
Bow
Condition
General
Hypotheses
Hypothesis
Satisfy
System
Systems
Theories
Theory
Thinkable
Much
Which
People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.
Gurjeet Singh
Best
People
Believe
Go
Best Way
Check
Data
Hypothesis
Significant
Ask
Complex
Huge
Know
Learn
Most
Problem
Set
Someone
Then
Things
Way
Who
Will
Working
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
Arthur Eddington
May
Matter
Process
Slow
Annihilation
Hypothesis
Simplest
Slow Process
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Science
Discrimination
Fine
Capacity
Hypothesis
Required
Working
The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
Robert Nozick
Up
Same
Keep
Because
Arena
Arenas
Falsity
Hypothesis
Passed
Probability
Repeating
Showing
Tests
After
Fact
Goes
Other
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