This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design. — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it. — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon… — Bernard Ingham Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
