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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
-George Soros
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George Soros
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. the main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.
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The best decision is the right decision. the next best decision is the wrong decision. the worst decision is no decision.
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Mr. darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as i am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of development, of comparative anatomy, of geographical distribution, and of palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and i, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.
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Tormented by conflicting feelings, i appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. a priori dogmatism, applying itself to god, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? i will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, god, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, i mean a necessary dialectical tool.
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