“ The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”
- Thomas Henry Huxley- Copy
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“ Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. ”
- Henry Norris Russell- Copy
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“ I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not. ”
- Peter Medawar- Copy
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“ If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Probably the simplest hypothesis… is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis, best suited to open the way, to the next better one. ”
- Konrad Lorenz- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion — these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. ”
- Jerome S. Bruner- Copy
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“ One must credit a hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms … he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it. ”
- Philip Henry Gosse- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”
- T.H. Buxley- Copy
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“ Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. ”
- Leonhard Euler- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think. ”
- Lillian Smith- Copy
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“ To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell… ”
- Lillian Smith- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record — Krakatoa, Mt… ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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