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We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create Picture Quote #1

Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof Picture Quote #1

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions Picture Quote #1

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed Picture Quote #1

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses Picture Quote #1

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but... ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct Picture Quote #1

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If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries Picture Quote #1

Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other Picture Quote #1

The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know Picture Quote #1

The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove Picture Quote #1

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations... may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be Picture Quote #1

Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses Picture Quote #1

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The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics Picture Quote #1

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses Picture Quote #1

Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know Picture Quote #1

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past Picture Quote #1

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We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create (Hypotheses Quotes) Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof (Hypotheses Quotes) Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions (Hypotheses Quotes) Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed (Hypotheses Quotes) Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses (Hypotheses Quotes) Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but... ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct (Hypotheses Quotes) If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries (Hypotheses Quotes) Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other (Hypotheses Quotes) The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know (Hypotheses Quotes) The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove (Hypotheses Quotes) Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations... may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be (Hypotheses Quotes) Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses (Hypotheses Quotes) The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof of past climactic change points to the possibility of future climate change, which inevitably will have significant implications for global economics (Hypotheses Quotes) The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses (Hypotheses Quotes) Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know (Hypotheses Quotes) For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past (Hypotheses Quotes)

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