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#hypothesis

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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


#disease #every #history #hypothesis #lie

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).


Bill Gaede


#extinction #gaede #hypothesis #knowledge #prediction

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.


Lynn Margulis


#science #change

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


#coins #conclusion #courageous #fertile #guess

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.


David Douglass


#appealing #contrary #facts #how #hypothesis

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.


Thomas Gold


#another #been #being #burned #choosing

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


#awaken #been #first #having #hypothesis

The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.


Andrew Lo


#change #depending #develop #economic #engaged

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.


Wilhelm Wundt


#beginnings #date #far #highly #hypothesis

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.


Robert M. Pirsig


#failure #hypothesis #results #science #scientific-method






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