#thesis

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact

See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ... THese leaves will die. They will rot. They will disappear into the universal mold. The energy that is in them will be released to reappear, the ions to act again, perhaps in the corn on the plain, perhaps in the body of a bird. The atoms and the ions remain or resurrect; the forms change and flux. We see the forms and mourn the change. We think all is lost; yet nothing is lost. The harmony of life is never ending.' The economy of nature provides that nothing be lost. ↗

— Russell Lord

#anthropology #archaeology #gaia-hypothesis #history #change

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

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#borges #counterbook #imaginable-permutations #orbis-tertius #tlön

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. ↗

— David Lewis-Williams

#hypothesis #science #theory #art

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists. ↗

— David Chalmers

#agree #argue #because #certain #conceivable

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#agent #draws #elements #fact #in fact

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#as far as #far #go #hypothesis #more

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#know #means #rise #sun #tomorrow

I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#alongside #community #development #does #dynamism