Quotes by Assumption I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse. Phil Elvrum assumptioncareersthinking All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions. Phil Keoghan assumptionterriblethinking The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. Phillip E. Johnson be-confidentassumptionnatural Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open. Phillip E. Johnson debateassumptionfundamentals You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made. R. Buckminster Fuller assumptionmadeknows The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe. R. Buckminster Fuller assumptionevolutionrealization Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide. Ray Brassier short-circuitassumptionawareness The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h! Ravi Zacharias philosophicalassumptionatheist In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored. Raymond E. Feist moving-onassumptionbored I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. Rex Stout assumptionanswerstwo The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation. Richard Arnold Epstein individualassumptiongains we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments Richard Carlson judgmentassumptionneeds All depends really on what kinds of assumptions you make. When you're forecasting things that will be happening 50 to 100 years in the future, it's really hard to predict what's going to happen that far out, so you have to make a bunch of assumptions. Richard Harris assumptionkind To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science. Richard Lindzen cascadeassumptionclimate Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus. Richard M. Weaver utteranceassumptionresponsibility Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully. Richard P. Feynman small-numbersassumptionthinking The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous. Richard Thaler assumptionplansfigures Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. Rick Yancey assumptionpoisonenemy Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Robert A. Heinlein assumptiondemocracymen The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. Robert Breault assumptionartfirsts«345678910111213»
