Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Novalis

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

Sidney Altman

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

Henri Poincare

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

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

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.

Stephen Hawking

Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

Paul Tate

(Kennedy) wants to look at what we're doing here with our selection process and what we've done with the contract to compare it to what their proposed new guidelines are going to be,

Seth Shostak

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

Derek Hall

Historically, in the recruitment area, we have done very little. We are new to the game compared to other institutions.

Heath Cowan

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.

John Keegan

I think the people saw the difference between someone who said he would do things, compared to someone who comes in with new ideas.

Ricky Giles

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

Jeremy Harris

I didn't much like school. I've been on motorcycles, but nothing compares to the feeling of being on a bull.

Clyde Hughes

In 22 years of being in the business, there is nothing else that I can compare it to.

Elissa Marsden

If you compare the two sets of communities, you have some problems of luxury in Bucks, with the property values and the heavy development pressure.

Samuel Richardson

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Maria Mitchell

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

Henri Poincare

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

David Dinkins

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

Charles Lamb

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Barry Goldwater

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

Claude Bernard

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

Claude Bernard

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