Assumption Quotes

680 Assumption quotes by 563 unique authors

When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this… — James L. Kraft
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. — Stephen Bayley
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What… — Dean Radin
Assumption is the mother of the screw-up. — Unknown Author
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. — Jonathan Sarfati
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. — Paul Broca
Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong. — Albert Einstein
My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will produce more results… — Charles Caleb Colton
Test everything, including assumptions — Jeffrey Zeldman
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.… — Bob Hawke
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought… — George Orwell
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it… — Garry Kasparov
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of… — Unknown Author
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to… — John Maynard Keynes
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief

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