#hypothesis

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. ↗

— William Bell Riley

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It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

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Don'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. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

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In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing). ↗

— Bill Gaede

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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. ↗

— Lynn Margulis

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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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