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“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.”

Ifs Made Two Science Results Discovery Scientist Contrary Outcomes Skepticism Hypothesis Skeptical Measurement Skeptic Measuring Scientific Discovery Discovery In Science

Author:Enrico Fermi

“Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.”

Doe Ideas Aids Hypothesis Scrutiny

Author:Nate Mendel

“It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.”

Imagination Brain Development Enormous Suspense Makers Hypothesis Fluid Reserved Presenter

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

“Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.”

Years Two Hard Science Sky Evidence Scientist Seeking Oppression Miserable Gray Weary Hypothesis Inadequacy Gray Skies

Book:Advice to a young scientist

Source: Advice to a young scientist

“The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.”

Ifs Wells Law Science Results Accepting Negative Substance Behave Divided Atoms Portions Definite Electricity Hypothesis Concluding

Book:Selected writings of Hermann von Helmholtz

Source: Selected writings of Hermann von Helmholtz

“When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.”

Debate Centre Topics Propositions Hypothesis Props

Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah

“Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.”

Science Hypothesis

Book:Opticks, Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light

Source: Opticks, Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light

“An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.”

Science Stars Plates Hypothesis Electrons Hypothetical

Book:New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)

Source: New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)

“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by Cœlestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge and strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.”

Long Has Beens Reason Eye Science Purpose Mankind Particular Members Instruments Medicine Errors Senses Instance Observation Rely Principal Hypothesis Humane Assembly Reckoning Seamen

Author:Robert Hooke

“Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.”

Wells Self Science Given Results Example Circumstances Opposites Fundamentals Accepted Alternatives Ads Introducing Hypothesis Adequate Inconsistent Advisable

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.”

Science Mistake Fronts Building Workers Indispensable Hypothesis Scaffolding

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the latter I collected many proofs, but I do not publish them ... I would dare to publish my speculations if there were people men like you.”

People Ifs Men Light Science Causes Natural Like You Dare Proof Accepted Latter Hypothesis Speculation Publish Natural Phenomena

Author:Galileo Galilei

“One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases”

Beautiful Science Theory Physics Hypothesis

Author:Simon Newcomb

“The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.”

Seems Science Causes Moral Support Worst Intellectual Argument Hypothesis

Author:Ronald Fisher

“The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.”

Firsts Science Discovery Independent Hypothesis Analogies Scientific Discovery

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed unrelated. Then, one wakeful night, after a considerable collection of these changes had been disclosed, the idea flashed through my mind that they could be nicely integrated if conceived as bodily preparations for supreme effort in flight or in fighting. Further investigation added to the collection and confirmed the general scheme suggested by the hunch.”

“Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.”

Use Asks Causes Drug Disease Aids Hypothesis Hiv Drug Use

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

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