Categories: Comparisons
An example of a hypothesis used to explain a scientific idea:
"The problem 'Which comes first, the hypothesis (H) or the observation (O)?' is soluble; as is the problem, 'Which comes first, the hen (H) or the egg (O)?'. The reply to the latter is , 'An earlier kind of egg'; to the former, 'An earlier kind of hypothesis'."
Sir Karl Popper
Popper, K. R. (1989). Conjectures and Refutations. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (5th ed.). Routledge. (First edition, 1963)
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