Quotes of Hypothesi - somelinesforyou

“ The thought of the love of God cannot be grasped in the slightest degree even as a working hypothesis, by a man who does not know human love. ”

- Unknown

“ The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”

- Thomas Henry Huxley

“ Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. ”

- Henry Norris Russell

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Probably the simplest hypothesis… is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ 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

“ Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis, best suited to open the way, to the next better one. ”

- Konrad Lorenz

“ 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

“ 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

“ One must credit a hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ 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

“ Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”

- T.H. Buxley

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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
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