#hypothesis

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. ↗

— Serge Lang

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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

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Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. ↗

— Pierre Laplace

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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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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

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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

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