Assumptions Quotes

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Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the… — Larry Brooks
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
Progress is a set of assumptions. — Edward Albee
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do… — Lee Kuan Yew
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence,… — Lee Kuan Yew
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that… — Millar Burrows
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you… — Maria Popova
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch… — Henry Petroski
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any… — James Harvey Robinson
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had… — Derek Sivers
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into… — Duane Michals
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals. — Dalai Lama
Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however,… — Unknown Author
Don't make assumptions. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be… — Charles Francis Richter
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies… — Robert Nozick
Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to… — Ibrahim Babangida
My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get… — Tavis Smiley
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing… — Gray Davis

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