Postulates Quotes

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I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot… — William Howard Taft
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children. — Arthur Compton
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for… — Richard Dawkins
String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck… — Willie Garson
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. — Laozi
We hear much nowadays as to the speculative ideas of men concerning the condition beyond the grave; but the admission that there is an individual… — James E. Talmage
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto. — Georg Baselitz
Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the… — Dean Kamen
Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor… — David Ben-Gurion
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until… — Gottfried Leibniz
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can… — Carl Jung
But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which… — Julian Coolidge
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself. — Igor Stravinsky
We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates… — J. Reuben Clark
Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable. — Alfred Russel Wallace
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. — Antonio Machado
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we… — Max Planck

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