Arbitrary Quote by Wassily Leontief

Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it…

— Richard P. Feynman

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

— Peter Drucker

Assumptions are those things we make when we are too lazy to check out the facts.

— Nikhil Saluja

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is…

— Albert Einstein

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

— Milton Friedman

“If we cannot express our assumptions explicitly in ways that others can understand and build upon, there can be no larger process of testing…

— Peter Senge

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

— Steve Allen

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a…

— Satoshi Kanazawa

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

— Anonymous

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

— Paul Broca

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

— Douglas Adams