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On forming and testing scientific ideas.

These hypothesis quotes warn against favoring an unverifiable idea over known and sufficient causes, a caution about logic that still applies well beyond the lab.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Frequent
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Nov 07, 2020

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

Quotes by Sidney Altman

Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Serge Lang

First
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Serge Lang

Favour
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Nov 07, 2020

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Quotes by Max Weber

Demolish
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Jean Rostand

Natural
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Henry Norris Russell

Making
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Nov 07, 2020

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

Quotes by David Douglass

Meeting
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Charles Lyell

Others trace how the early drug hypothesis around AIDS-related illness grew from a handful of cases into a wider scientific possibility worth testing.

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