One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
quote by David Douglass
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
quote by Robert Nozick
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Enrico Fermi
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
There's two possible outcomes if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
quote by Enrico Fermi
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
quote by Enrico Fermi
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
quote by Konrad Lorenz
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
quote by Pierre Laplace
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
quote by Denis Diderot
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
quote by Jean Rostand
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
quote by Henry Norris Russell
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
quote by Andrew Wiles
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
quote by Arthur Eddington
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
quote by Thomas Gold
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
quote by David Douglass
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
quote by T.H. Buxley
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
quote by Wilhelm Wundt
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
quote by Milton Friedman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
quote by Serge Lang
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
quote by David Douglass
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
quote by Thomas H. Huxley
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!