#thesis

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

#basin #hypothesis #i #indications #long

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#bad #broad #early #generalization #his

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#frank #i #supposed

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. ↗

— John Clayton

#christmas #holiday #man-made #much #pretty

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. ↗

— Manfred Eigen

#scream #sometimes #than #thesis

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

— Thomas Huxley

#beautiful #fact #great #great tragedy #hypothesis

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#policy #thesis #welfare #wrote

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

— Jean Rostand

#demolish #discovered #had #hypothesis #must

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

— Henry Norris Russell

#hypothesis #law #natural #working

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#develop #group #i #included #nuclear