Postulate Quotes
39 quotes by 34 authors
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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
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The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being.…
— Karl Marx
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
— Elihu Root
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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