Assumption Quotes

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My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil… — John B. S. Haldane
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and… — Warren Farrell
All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We… — Jack Canfield
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. — Daniel Dennett
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the… — David Malpass
New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is… — Kat Edmonson
The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their groups,… — Huston Smith
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I… — Sheldon Harnick
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can… — Donald E. Graham
In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I… — Randall Kennedy
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then… — Noam Chomsky
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you… — Gary Zukav
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom… — Ron Eglash
One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to… — Dave deBronkart
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research… — Jill Lepore
By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was… — Tom Wolfe
When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate.… — Jeb Bush
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong. — Benjamin Cardozo
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. — Steven Sinofsky

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