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hypothesis
«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.»
Author: Edward Teller
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Facts
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hypotheses, hypothesis, novel, statement, suggestion
«There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.»
Author: Enrico Fermi
(Physicist)
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confirming, confirms, contrary, discovery, hypotheses, hypothesis, outcomes
«It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.»
Author: Konrad Lorenz
(Zoologist)
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discard, good morning, hypothesis, PET, research scientist, scientist
«It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil»
Author: Sidney Hook
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belief system, cognitive, constitute, doctrines, existence of God, hypothesis, Order of, recognizable, religious belief, religious doctrine, speculative, systems, the existence of God
«All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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cautious, hypothesis, obscurity, probability, supported, whatsoever
«In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.»
«So when I say it I mean it, and it is not a hypothesis. I have experienced It that way. The mind can be used and can be put aside. It is an instrument, a very beautiful instrument; no need to be so obsessed with it. No need to be so fixed, fixated with it. Then it becomes a disease.»
«It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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clot, genital, hypothesis, in suspense, presenter, presenters, reserved, suspense
«The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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Atheism
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for the most part, hypothesis, impudent, misguide, misguided, origin, recourse, scholars, The Creation, the Origin
«Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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centre, dwells, humanism, hypotheses, hypothesis, in point of fact, perspective, philosophic, shifting, theorem, theorems