#hypothesis

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. ↗

— Sidney Altman

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

— Christopher Monckton

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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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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

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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

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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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