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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

— Arthur Eddington

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

— Stanley B. Prusiner

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

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

— Richard Holbrooke

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

— John Harsanyi

Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

— Thomas Malthus

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

— Enrico Fermi

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

— Vera Rubin

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

— Isaac Newton