Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

Dennis Hastert

It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security,

Aristotle

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Alexander Hamilton

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Cleveland Abbe

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Bobby Ray Inman

Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.

Edmund Husserl

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Byron Katie

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Paul Mlakar

It is a hypothesis that we are looking at.

Jacques Rossouw

We set out to test a promising but unproven hypothesis that has proven to be less promising than we anticipated.

David Douglass

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

Isaac Newton

I do not feign hypotheses.

Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Novalis

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Henri Poincare

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.

James J. Gibson

The hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.