#hypothesis

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made. ↗

— Robert K. Greenleaf

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Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. ↗

— David Lewis-Williams

#hypothesis #science #theory #art

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#greatest problem #hypothesis #mathematicians #now #probably

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. ↗

— Serge Lang

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

— Serge Lang

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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. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#anxious #communicate #difficulty #facts #fits

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#another #been #being #burned #choosing

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? ↗

— David Hilbert

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Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa. ↗

— Allen Steele

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