| Theory
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Hypothesis
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| Theory is derived from Greek word theoria meaning a looking at, viewing, beholding
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Hypothesis is derived from a Greek word hupothesis meaning to put under or to suppose .
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| A theory provides an explanatory framework for some observation .
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A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon .
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| Conventionally , a theory was defined as that an arbitrary conjecture (that is, a statement of fact that you think might be true) starts off as a hypothesis, before you've tested it, and becomes a theory, once it's validated.
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A hypothesis is something which has a scientific method available to be tested by .
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| In practice , theory tends to refer to some well-developed way of thinking about a problem .
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A hypothesis refers to a provisional idea whose merit requires evaluation .
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| A theory is a model/mechanism that corresponds to the available evidence and as such should predict the outcome of an experiment accurately.
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In simple , a hypothesis is a guess which could be tested upon by scientific methods for finding out its accuracy or falseness .
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