My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god,… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
I've always been curious about people's psychedelic experiences, and I kind of had this assumption that I was going to have some… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Net neutrality is rooted in a number of leftist assumptions, and that is that all corporation is evil, that all profit is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success. — James Fox Copy Share Image
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. — John Fiske Copy Share Image