Ben Goldacre

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

British Writer

Graham Hancock

Many people say I believe aliens built the pyramids. I don't. In fact I'm not a supporter of the 'ancient alien' hypothesis at all. I think a lost human civilization is a much better explanation of the mysteries and paradoxes of ancient cultures.

Mary Dillon

Women in the U.S. are influenced by the same trends - popular culture, runway trends, etc. - and our hypothesis is that she's quite anxious to be able to buy products in her town that perhaps she hasn't been able to in the past.

American Businesswoman

Oliver Joseph Lodge

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

English Physicist

William Robertson Smith

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

Scottish Scientist

Wilhelm Wundt

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.

German Psychologist

Alice Roberts

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

English Scientist

Alice Dreger

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

American Scientist

Konrad Lorenz

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Austrian Scientist

Nate Mendel

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

American Musician

A hypothesis should have a foundation of real-world facts, even though it's not proven.

Based on Facts

Remember, a hypothesis is an idea that has not been proven true, but it's not just a guess.

Not Yet Proven

The ultimate goal of a hypothesis is to be tested through research or experimentation.

Testing Required

Think of a hypothesis as the starting block in the race to find answers.

Starting Point

Even if evidence is limited, a hypothesis relies on it to begin inquiry.

Evidence Is Key

A hypothesis isn't the end; it motivates digging deeper and looking for more evidence.

Further Investigation

A hypothesis in math might offer a new approach to solving a problem, but it needs proof.

Tentative Suggestion

A mathematical hypothesis must withstand rigorous tests and scrutiny to be accepted.

To Be Tested

 three hypotheses right and I'm gonna give them to you now see what you think about these ones the first one is that they have square anuses. No absolute nonsense never seen a square anus in my life and I've been looking, seriously I mean even if it were square when the poo came out it would reform into a pellet shape. Okay so you don't like that one. No. Okay the other option

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 was twice as good as gold standard therapy at helping people quit smoking. So it actually works. And when we studied the brains of experienced meditators, we found that parts of a neural network of self-referential processing called the default mode network were at play. Now, one current hypothesis is that a region of this network,

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 My behavior has always perplexed the non-procrastinators around me, and I wanted to explain to the non-procrastinators of the world what goes on in the heads of procrastinators, and why we are the way we are. Now, I had a hypothesis that the brains of procrastinators were actually different than the brains of other people.

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 to adults with lungs. This hypothesis suggests that the hiccup is a relic of the ancient transition from water to land. An inhalation that could move water over gills followed by a rapid closure of the glottis preventing water from entering the lungs. That's supported by evidence

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 In addition, little incentive exists to publish results unsupportive of the expected hypothesis. That results in a deluge of agreement between what was expected and what was found. In rare occasions, this can even lead to deliberate fabrication,

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 in a person nearby that has observed the act. Once this reflex is triggered, it must run its course. Have you ever tried to stop a yawn once it has begun? Basically impossible! Another physiological hypothesis is known as non-conscious mimicry,

Why is yawning...

 animals, minerals, fossils, and artifacts present windows into times and places around the world and across billions of years of history. When a research problem emerges, scientists peer through these windows and test hypotheses about the past.

The hidden worlds within...

 University he searched the universe to find anything that could warp space-time as much as a rotating black hole what he found led him to make a bold and ambitious hypothesis which is based on something that is still theoretical it's

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 Regardless, what we know is that because of the discovery, the hypothesis that there is still life present on Mars today remains a viable one. So by now, I think I have convinced you that Mars is very special to us,

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 split off a chlorine atom react with the ozone destroying the ozone layer in few years later scientists confirmed the hypothesis and then observed a huge decrease in ozone

Hypothesis