Assumption Quote by Isaac Asimov

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

— Charles H. Townes

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest…

— Nicholas of Cusa

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with…

— Anonymous

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do…

— Richard Swinburne

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

— Richard Dawkins

“I am not postulating a “God of the gaps”, a god merely to explain the things that science has not yet explained. I am…

— John C. Lennox

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

“The greatest, equally with the smallest motions of the Universe, are subjected to the rigid necessity of inevitable laws. These laws are the unknown…

— Christopher Hitchens

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use…

— William James

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

— C. S. Lewis

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

— Satoshi Kanazawa

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.

— Loyd Auerbach