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That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

Rebecca Solnit

Ideas, Trying, Looks

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I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

Philippe Dauman

Looks, Topics, Shows

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Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Max Weber

Causes, Favour, Known

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I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

Laurence Sterne

Hate, Numbers, Obscurity

Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.151

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My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Laurence Sterne

Truth, Father, Mean

Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.523, eBookIt.com

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We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads.

Ludwig Buchner

Wise, Sorry, Phases

Ludwig Büchner (1891). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

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However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.

Alfred Tarski

Science, Special, Trying

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For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

Gary Sloan

Religion, Atheism, Machines

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I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.

Eugene Fama

Simple, Market Efficiency, Investing

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The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those who pooh-pooh beta analysis and all that, who are least able to understand the analysis needed to test that hypothesis.

Paul Samuelson

Investing, Tests, Able

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

William James

Truth

Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

Reid Hoffman

Moving, Data, Vision

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The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Voltaire

Atheist, Evil, Atheism

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Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

James Bryant Conant

Taken, Years, Special

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Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

Julian Huxley

Mean, People, Doe

"Essays of a Humanist (The New Divinity)". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in the way of better and truer interpretation. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.

Julian Huxley

Cat, Fading, Way

'Religion without Revelation' (1957 ed.) ch. 3

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Lillian Smith

Life, Dream, Art

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To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Needs, Mechanic, Celestial

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Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

Augustus De Morgan

Results, Observation

Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.55

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Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

Brian Foote

Space, Design, Architecture

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I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

Jonathan Haidt

Balance, Needs, Guidance

Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.12, Basic Books

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On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

Havelock Ellis

Eye, Men, Law

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The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

Willie Soon

Hallmark, Rejected, Evidence

"It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.

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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Men, Giving, May

"Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

Tim Crane

Christian, Religious, Taken

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