Assumptions Quotes
320 quotes by 281 authors
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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
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Test everything, including assumptions
— Jeffrey Zeldman
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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
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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…
— David M. Kreps
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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
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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
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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
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The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation…
— Peter Lilley
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field…
— Werner Heisenberg
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All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -…
— Carl Sagan
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Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose…
— Stanton T. Friedman
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Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you…
— Rolf Dobelli
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Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French…
— George Akerlof
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The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my heart. The impossibility…
— Anne Bogart
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The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a…
— John F. Kerry
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I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its…
— Bill McKibben
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At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader…
— Arthur Frommer
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The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
— John Seely Brown
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.…
— Alison Lurie
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