Hypothesis Quotations | Page 2

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

I feign no hypotheses.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

I do not feign hypotheses.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.