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There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

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There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. ↗

— Angela Carter

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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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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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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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