#hypothesis

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#close-mindedness #hypothesis #open-mindedness #maturity

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contend #future #here #hopes #hypothesis

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#as far as #far #go #hypothesis #more

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

— Andrew Wiles

#greatest problem #hypothesis #mathematicians #now #probably

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#know #means #rise #sun #tomorrow

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. ↗

— Pierre Laplace

#i #need #your

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#altered #cultures #enter #hypothesis #knowledge

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#disprove #hypothesis #improve #only #prove

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#consequently #demonstrate #disease #even #had