Postulate Quotes

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Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as… — William S. Burroughs
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is… — Jacques Monod
An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a… — Linus Pauling
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone… — Murray Rothbard
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy. — William O. Douglas
[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
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish… — E. T. Whittaker
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others… — Mohamed ElBaradei
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during… — Aaron T. Beck
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,… — D. H. Lawrence
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. — Ernest Renan
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. — Gerhard Richter
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most… — William Golding
Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature. — Walter A. Shewhart
Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the… — Walter A. Shewhart
Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen. — Lukas Foss

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