"People can look at things and be curious about them, but if you are an explorer you want to know why and how and maybe develop an experiment to test the hypothesis."

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

And we put up this hypothesis that our observation is that octet stability seems to be an attractive electron configuration.

我们把假设置于我们的观察之上,即8电子稳定体系,似乎是一种吸引人的电子图像。

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Because they would have started with the hypothesis, not that there existed a month, but that June was particularly likely.

因为他们是有了假设然后再开始做实验的，而不是说有一个这样特殊的月份，而是六月是一个特殊的月份。

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According to the Scientific Method, when real-world facts contradict a postulated hypothesis, the hypothesis fails.

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It was merely a hypothesis, but it did suggest a programme of research that could be conducted to test the hypothesis.

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People will use social to inform a hypothesis or confirm a hypothesis.

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