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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.”

Facts Able Personality Fit Difficulty Communicate Anxious Hypothesis Simplest Surviving Straightforward Being Straightforward

Author:Oliver Lodge

“I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.”

Facts Differences Ability Opinion Standards Concerned Holes Hypothesis

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.”

Facts Interest Perspective Sight Humanism Centre Hypothesis Shifting Theorems Philosophic

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader

“A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.”

Ifs Looks Facts Might Capable Being True Comparison Hypothesis Verification Refutation

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.”

Done Facts Purpose Mankind Information Theory Opposites Absolutes Method Relative Multiple Hypothesis Select Scientific Method Absolute Truth Hypothetical Multiplication

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.”

Facts Seems Accepting Fit Approach Hypothesis Testing Never Ending Rejecting

Author:James G. Frazer

“[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.”

Giving Should May Said Facts Order Courses Speak Chance Relation Experiments Phrases Hypothesis Experimentation Null

Author:Ronald Fisher

“It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts of observation and experiment, without reference to any hypothesis as to the occult molecular operations with which the sensible phenomena may be conceived to be connected; and that course will be followed in the body of the present treatise. But, in giving a brief historical sketch of the progress of thermodynamics, the progress of the hypothesis of thermic molecular motions cannot be wholly separated from that of the purely inductive theory.”

Source: A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine

“Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.”

Ifs Facts Used Causes Trouble Atheism Ready Positive Atheism Abandon Hypothesis Inconsistent Tolls

Book:The Art of Scientific Investigation

Source: The Art of Scientific Investigation