Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Douglass

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

Jacques Rossouw

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

Paul Mlakar

It is a hypothesis that we are looking at.

Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Isaac Newton

I do not feign hypotheses.

Edward de Bono

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

Henri Poincare

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

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.

Isaac Brock

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

Ian Watson

My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

Zhang Li

The overall relationship is strong, but trade and economic ties have lagged behind, especially compared to China-India trade.

Brian Harvey

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.

Brewster Kahle

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Valentina Tereshkova

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

Shun Totani

The 10-year notes are reasonable to get in at these yield levels compared with a month ago.

Fabio Capello

We have an extremely competitive roster in terms of quality and quantity. And compared to last year we know each other better and have all been together from the first day of training camp.

Mark Zuckerberg

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

David Dinkins

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Barry Goldwater

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Benjamin Disraeli

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Claude Bernard

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

Ian Hacking

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.