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We often can’t prove or disprove our hypotheses, especially when you’re innovating, so reason fails us to some extent.

Youngling Feynman • younglingfeynman.com

Nonscientists often use the word “theory” when they should say “hypothesis.” Without getting too technical, a theory is a scientific explanation of reality that is so well tested that it is as good as a fact.

Scott Adams • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

There are many misconceptions about where scientific theories are derived from. A popular one is Empiricism, that we derive theories from our senses. Another is Inductivism, that the future will resemble the past. Testability is also generally accepted as a defining characteristic of the scientific method. All of these are wrong - there are many ex... See more

Alex MacCaw • The Beginning of Infinity

I believe in investment hypotheses. A hypothesis is a falsifiable statement and is used by the scientific community.

Gavin Baker • Security Error | Columbia Business School

We can express our assumptions as part of an hypothesis, and we can run an experiment in order to test our hypothesis and see whether our assumptions are right or wrong.

Joshua Seiden • Outcomes Over Output

any hypothesis that has survived some test that threatens its validity becomes more likely.

Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why

any hypothesis that has survived some test that threatens its validity becomes more likely.

Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why

HARK is an acronym for Hypothesizing After Results Known. To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with gathering data, poking around to find the patterns, and then constructing a hypothesis. That’s all part of science. But you then have to get new data to test the hypothesis.

Tim Harford • The Data Detective

The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius

Roger’s Bacon secretorum.life