The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion--these are the most valuable coin of the t
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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
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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who re
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The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed
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Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theor
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To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis w
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All the philosophy, therefore, in the world, and all the religion, which is nothing but a species of philosophy, will never be abl
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In the field of politics the equivalent of a theorem is a perfectly disciplined army; of a sonnet or picture, a police state under
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The great tragedy of science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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