I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people...… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly.… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
America has become and was the exception to the way most of the people in the world were forced to live, because… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think my one of my strengths in standup is my ability to adlib. I do all my best writing on stage.… — Henry Cho Copy Share Image
We can't unify around a single premise! Name one thing the Republican Party today could unify on. You can't. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
