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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.
I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.
The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.
Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.
Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.
The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.
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.
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.
You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.
The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
