Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. - Henry Edward Armstrong
..the senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide evidence for checking hypotheses about what lies before us. Indeed we may say that a perceived object is a hypothesis, suggested and tested by sensory data. - Richard Langton Gregory
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. - Gautama Buddha
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - Albert Einstein