Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then… — Moby Copy Share Image
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
There has always been a confusion in the West about -Islam and about the Middle East and the assumption that the countries… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“This is heaven- sunshine, coffee, and muffin." "You're so different from everyone else," he teased. "How so?" she asked, and took another… — Lynne Ewing Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations.… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power… — Hal Finney Copy Share Image
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she… — Fred Ward Copy Share Image
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of… — Greg Walloch Copy Share Image
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations… — Michael Persinger Copy Share Image
Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization.… — Geoffrey Burbidge Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
