Complex sentence: According to the theory, scientific inquiry proceeds by formulating a hypothesis that is intended to explain an observed phenomenon, from the hypothesis a sufficient number of explicit predictions of further phenomena are deduced that should be observable as a consequence of the hypothesis.
Split into simpler sentences: According to the theory, scientific inquiry proceeds by formulating a hypothesis that is intended to explain an observed phenomenon. From the hypothesis a sufficient number of explicit predictions of further phenomena are deduced that should be observable as a consequence of the hypothesis.