#hypothesis

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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It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

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Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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

— Thomas Huxley

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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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