Quotes having the keyword Hypothesis
Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.
by Pierre Laplace (Mathematician, French , born in 1749) keywords: hypothesis, need , your
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.
by Oliver Joseph Lodge (Physicist, English , born in 1851) keywords: able, anxious, communicate, difficulty, facts, fits, hypothesis, intelligence, most, only, personality, simplest, straightforward , surviving
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.
by Charles Lyell (Lawyer, British , born in 1797) keywords: ago, basin, hypothesis, indications, long, meeting, northern, period, pleistocene, southern, suggested , thames
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
by Robert Nozick (Philosopher, American , born in 1938) keywords: been, degree, describing, future, historical, hold, how, hypothesis, justifiable, past, prediction, severely, simply, statement, tested, up , will
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
by Talcott Parsons (Sociologist, American , born in 1902) keywords: been, changes, development, factual, forward, hand, hypothesis, insights, interaction, investigation, knowledge, large, matter, may, new, other, part, put, reciprocal, subsequent, system, tested , theoretical
Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.
by Henry Norris Russell (Scientist, American , born in 1877) keywords: demonstrated, hypothesis, law, natural , working
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
by Thomas Sydenham (Scientist, English , born in 1624) keywords: author, disease, every, history, hypothesis, lie, mind, occupied, philosophical, previously, should, whatsoever , writing
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
by Edward Lawrie Tatum (Scientist, American , born in 1909) keywords: been, cases, controls, direct, each, enzyme, evidence, experimental, function, gene, hypothesis, number, particular, production, repeatedly, specificity, stated, supported, underlying , which
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
by Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, English , born in 1953) keywords: greatest, hypothesis, mathematicians, now, probably, problem , riemann
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
by Wilhelm Wundt (Psychologist, German , born in 1832) keywords: back, beginnings, date, far, highly, hypothesis, large, life, mental, must, observation, probable, regard, standpoint , then