“ 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's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike. ”
- Sue Grafton- Copy
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“ Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough — as most wrong theories are! ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be. ”
- Paul Feyerabend- Copy
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“ Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. ”
- John Wilmot- Copy
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“ Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience. ”
- Paul Feyerabend- Copy
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“ What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories. ”
- Madame Chiang Kai Shek- Copy
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“ Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. ”
- Albert Low- Copy
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“ With the assumption of that greater burden, the burden on our troops should go down, and we should start to see our numbers going in the other direction. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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“ I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. ”
- Gary Becker- Copy
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“ My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. ”
- Peter Gay- Copy
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“ There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't. ”
- John Taylor- Copy
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“ I am troubled by the assumption in the legislation that abortion services, as a matter of linguistics and a matter of law, cannot include discussing with a woman why she shouldn't have an abortion. ”
- Wendy Kaminer- Copy
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“ It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a prior assumptions about the meaning of the word understand. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth — that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine. ”
- J.B.S. Haldane- Copy
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“ I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. ”
- Anne Sullivan- Copy
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“ I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme — mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip. ”
- Bernard Ingham- Copy
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“ There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts. ”
- Jane Goodall- Copy
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“ Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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