Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of…

It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because…

— Seth Shostak

“and science, can be traced back as a direct result of this deficiency in human thinking.  We can express this deficiency in the form…

— Bō Jinn

“Science must not degenerate into applied materialistic philosophy. But this is exactly what it does at the hands of today's alchemists, namely, the materialistic…

— William A. Dembski

“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,…

— Carl Sagan

You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this…

— Jonathan Nolan

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

— Quintilian

We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

— Lisa Joy

Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they still wanted…

— Daniel Tosh

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

— Dorianne Laux

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

— Victor Levin

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of…

— Adam Michnik

To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and…

— Paolo Nutini

People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the law, you're…

— Bob Buckhorn

I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

— Adam DeVine

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

— Pearl S. Buck