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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.
by Oliver Joseph Lodge (Physicist, English , born in 1851) keywords: able, anxious, communicate, difficulty, facts, fits, hypothesis, intelligence, most, only, personality, simplest, straightforward , surviving It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
by Konrad Lorenz (Scientist, Austrian , born in 1903) topics: Science keywords: before, breakfast, day, discard, every, exercise, good, him, hypothesis, keeps, morning, pet, research, scientist , young Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
by Konrad Lorenz (Scientist, Austrian , born in 1903) keywords: best, better, defined, hypothesis, next, open, science, suited, truth, way , working 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 I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
by Peter Medawar (Scientist, Brazilian , born in 1915) keywords: advice, age, any, bearing, better, cannot, conviction, give, hypothesis, intensity, over, scientist, than, true , whether The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena.
by Robert Nozick (Philosopher, American , born in 1938) keywords: after, arena, arenas, because, fact, falsity, goes, hypothesis, keep, other, passed, probability, repeating, same, showing, tests , up 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 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.
by William B. Rileykeywords: elimination, evolution, fact, first, hypothesis, important, most, only, reason, science, speculation , unquestioned This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
by William Robertson Smith (Scientist, Scottish , born in 1846) keywords: alive, been, force, forms, hypothesis, keep, lost, may, meaning, more, only, original, precedent, religious, said, strong, than, times , which 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 A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
by Edward Teller (Physicist, American , born in 1908) topics: Science keywords: believe, believes, effective, everyone, fact, found, guilty, hypothesis, innocent, novel, simple, statement, suggestion, unless, until , wants 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 The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
by Wilhelm Wundt (Psychologist, German , born in 1832) keywords: best, claim, heuristic, hypothesis, materialistic, only, point, psychology, value , view