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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.

Progress is a set of assumptions.

Science and medicine and technology have all produced the breathtaking advances with which they have gifted the human race, only because they have been willing to do what religion has consistently, staunchly, and stubbornly refused to do: question the prior assumption.

Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI animation has finally become practical. It is a fact that I processed the Steamboy work based on the assumption that the machine spec would be higher. In that context, young 3D animators have also gotten more skillful in recent years. But what I didn't expect is that the skills of traditional 2D animators have become worse, and notable young animators have not come out to the scene. This is a big issue for the industry.

So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own financial interests before the financial interests of the principals, princi-pals whose interests they are really bound to observe first.

Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort of zeitgeist-y. There's a collective consciousness and we're all drawing from it.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.