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“The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.”

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Book:Contact

Source: Contact

“Entrepreneurs must have a vision that others do not currently recognise. People may feel that their ideas are hypotheses and impose a high level of uncertainty, but that is what entrepreneurship is all about: putting everything on the line for a view you believe in.”

People Business Risk Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Uncertainty Believe In Yourself Hypotheses

Book:Why Nepal Fails

Source: Why Nepal Fails

“This does not mean that the one presenting the hypothesis should be resolute to disbelieve his or her postulate but rather the person should be resolute to leave the expressed opinion should they be thoroughly convinced of its lack of accuracy and poignant truth. Whether this truth is made through poetic license and artistic dramatic presentation or through clinical analysis of facts or both, the truth must be embraced not merely denied by blind faith of either new atheism or religious ideals. New or old is of no consequence, only truth and compassion are of value.”

Logic Blind Faith Hypotheses

Book:Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Source: Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

“There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.”

Jealousy Hypotheses

Book:The Face of Another

Source: The Face of Another

“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”

Reason Prove Mathematics Cliche Experimentation Trial Guesswork Hypotheses Deductive Logic

Book:I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

Source: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography

“We don't usually see this happening but, like detectives arriving on the scene after a crime, we can piece together what must have happened from the evidence that remains.”

Science Theories Guesswork Hypotheses Sleuthing

Book:The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution