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 TellerThe hypothesis,
- Stephanie BrownTo 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 CarterThe problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's curriculum.
- Abdul SattarIt is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
- Adam GoldfarbGod is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
- Ahmad RagabIf I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
- Alan SaportaNot as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
- Alexander VeshnyakovHow does any place influence one`s poetry? Sometimes I joke that Hypothesis is about an Alberta boy`s struggle to have French boyfriends.
- Alicia DlugoshDon`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.
- Amanda BradleyThere 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.
- André GlucksmannThe fact that we don`t keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
- André GlucksmannIn writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
- Andrew DuffThere is a reasonable hypothesis that there could have been an ancient civilization on Mars, ... At no point has NASA chosen to address this scientifically.
- Ayman ZawahiriIt is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
- Konrad LorenzA 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