Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases. — Nancy Leveson Copy Share Image
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality. — Emily Levine Copy Share Image
“I was operating on the unspoken assumption that my inner world would be filled with life, peace, and joy once my external… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything? — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith "Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c)… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. — Milton Sapirstein Copy Share Image
We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption,… — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The… — Doris Lessing 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
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
It's not always going to cost money to turn a parish into a more welcoming parish. But it does take a willingness… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within;… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
“Live with the assumption that every day it will rain. If it does, you were right. If it doesn’t, you were fortunate.” — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
