Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Douglas Adams

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Ronald Fisher

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

Rich Mullins

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

Tullian Tchividjian

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

Sarah Dessen

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

Wynonna Judd

I always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight.

Kelley Armstrong

Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl

Norman Rockwell

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

Barbara de Angelis

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?

Pearl S. Buck

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Shaquille O'Neal

It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Sidney Altman

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

Johann Heinrich Lambert

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

Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.