Premises Quotes

82 quotes by 68 authors

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but… — Russell Baker
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. — Ambrose Bierce
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was… — Jimmy Carter
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. — Ambrose Bierce
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and… — Albert Einstein
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation… — George C. Edwards III
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are… — Andre-Marie Ampere
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over… — Arthur M. Wellington
...We then examine a particular coding system in DNA and discover that UI [universal information] is conveyed within the genes. Using this DNA evidence and… — Werner Gitt
Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one… — Carlos Castaneda
The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad… — Edward Snowden
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think… — Ayn Rand
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. — William Zinsser
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort… — Nick Cave

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