Postulate Quotes

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...through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government - one that will embrace all of the collective activities of men;… — Harold Rugg
The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being.… — Karl Marx
It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the… — Richard Swinburne
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I… — Robert A. Heinlein
My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific… — Ray Kurzweil
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life,… — Frank J. Tipler
This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine… — Paris Reidhead
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. — Elihu Root
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until… — Chauncey Wright
The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in… — Jacques Monod
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations. — David Hilbert
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's… — Elihu Root
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as… — Anthony Braxton
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it… — Max Planck
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the… — Tommy Lee Jones
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing… — William S. Burroughs
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here… — Elie Wiesel
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various… — Tyler Cowen
I've never claimed there is no god. I've simply stated I don't believe in one. The burden of proof is on those who postulate that… — Rock Cowles

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