#hypothesis

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confirmation #confirmed #creativity #error

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made. ↗

— Robert K. Greenleaf

#faith #hypothesis #faith

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#greatest problem #hypothesis #mathematicians #now #probably

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

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

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

— Pierre Laplace

#i #need #your

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

#anxious #communicate #difficulty #facts #fits

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

#basin #hypothesis #i #indications #long

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

— David Douglass

#essential #fall #hypothesis #love #neutral

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

— Jean Rostand

#demolish #discovered #had #hypothesis #must

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