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- 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…
- All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble…
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- Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. — Gary Becker
- The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin
- History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. — Ken Burns
- Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the… — Alan Alda
- In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter… — Sherman Alexie
- The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken… — Richard Doll
- We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact… — Muhammad Yunus
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. — George Santayana
- Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the… — Alfred North Whitehead
- You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. — Denis Waitley
- We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that… — Albert Einstein
- [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we… — Carl Sagan