Top Hypothesis Quotes
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
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
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman
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
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
Thomas Gold 
Henry Norris Russell 
Konrad Lorenz 
Wilhelm Wundt 
Denis Diderot 
Talcott Parsons 
Thomas Huxley 
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz 
80% of people like this quote
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
63% of people like this quote
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman
63% of people like this quote
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
60% of people like this quote
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
59% of people like this quote
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Thomas Sydenham
57% of people like this quote
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.
Enrico Fermi
57% of people like this quote
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
Serge Lang
57% of people like this quote
It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
David Douglass
57% of people like this quote
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
Henry Norris Russell
55% of people like this quote
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