#hypotheses

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

---

#another #anything #astronomy #cannot #certain

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. ↗

— Robert Nozick

---

#account #akin #between #continuity #data

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

---

#conventional #delusional #finally #human #hypotheses