Assumptions Quotes

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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
Test everything, including assumptions — Jeffrey Zeldman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown
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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