All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that…

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in…

— Anonymous

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

— John F. Kerry

When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really…

— Vanna Bonta

Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents…

— Gena Showalter

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

— Leo Strauss

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

— David Brin

That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to…

— Giles Fraser

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it…

— Sigmund Freud

My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific…

— Dallin H. Oaks

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

— DMX

We must shape a restorative justice system that does not seek to criminalize whole communities, but instead creates opportunities for prevention and integration. Most…

— Laphonza Butler

A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from…

— Marc MacYoung

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and…

— Carl Sagan

“My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call “mind”—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.…

— Michio Kaku