It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
I have no need for that hypothesis.
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.
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.
The hypothesis of the supernatural andor a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis. ' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.
If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!
I would be lying, however, if I claimed that I could always formulate worthwhile hypotheses on the basis of my theoretical framework. Sometimes there were no reflexive processes to be found; sometimes I failed to find them; and, what was the most painful of all, sometimes I got them wrong. One way or another, I often invested without a worthwhile hypothesis and my activities were not very different from a random walk.
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.
The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.