Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

William James

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

William James

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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.