What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

- Thomas Gold

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

- Sidney Altman

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

- Serge Lang

Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

- Serge Lang

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

- Randa Abdel-Fattah

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

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

- Niall Ferguson

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

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

- Jean Rostand

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

- Angela Carter

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.

- Henry Norris Russell

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

- Helen Fisher

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

- Edward Lawrie Tatum

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

- David Douglass

It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.

- David Douglass

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

- Denis Diderot

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

- David Hilbert

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

- Christopher Monckton

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

- Alfred Werner