The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. — Elon Musk
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination — Jean-Francois Lyotard
The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove. — Paul Erdos
A hypothesis is only the first step in any rigorous scientific process. — Jennifer Doudna
For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture. — William of Ockham
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. — Denis Diderot
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. — Bela Lugosi
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William of Ockham
Don’t commit to assumptions; instead, view them as hypotheses and use the negotiation to test them rigorously. — Chris Voss
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. — Isaac Newton
Short Postulate Quotes
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable. — Paul Feyerabend
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. — Albert Low
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. — Ernest Renan
'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen. — Ray Bradbury
Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart
Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature. — Walter A. Shewhart
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. — Wolfgang Pauli
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children. — Arthur Compton
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. — Isaac Asimov
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates. — Isaac Asimov
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Postmodern Quotes
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. — Catharine MacKinnon
Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake. — Nigella Lawson
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality. — Ken Wilber
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences. — Joel Hodgson
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. — Kathy Acker
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. — David Foster Wallace
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard
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 regard as existing, postulates consciousness. — Max Planck
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 were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life. — David Ben-Gurion
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe. — Arthur W. Pink
It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job. — Richard Swinburne
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 subscribe. — William Howard Taft
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself. — Igor Stravinsky
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. At no point are you postulating the sudden coming into existence of a complicated being. — Richard Dawkins
It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun. — Vanna Bonta
Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin. — Huntington Willard
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 a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State. — J. Reuben Clark
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations. — David Hilbert
The scientific attitude implies the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe. — Jacques Monod
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. — Elie Wiesel
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. — Gerhard Richter
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. — Chauncey Wright
The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition. — Bertrand Russell
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. — Elihu Root
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function. — William S. Burroughs
Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive. — Erich Fromm
Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes. — Boris Sidis
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. — Margaret Mead
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. — Elihu Root
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 we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting. — Julian Coolidge
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen. — Lukas Foss
The failure of market catallactics in no way denies the following truth: given sufficient knowledge the optimal decisions can always be found by scanning over all the attainable states of the world and selecting the one which according to the postulated ethical welfare function is best. The solution 'exists'; the problem is how to 'find' it. — Paul Samuelson
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy. — William O. Douglas
Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.
Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt. — Farkas Bolyai
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Bertrand Russell
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth. — Sheri S. Tepper
I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics. — Edgar Mitchell
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it. — Johann Heinrich Lambert
We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises. — Aristotle
Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those hypotheses. But in order that this work merit the name of Geometry, it is necessary that these hypotheses or postulates express the result of the more simple and elementary observations of physical figures. — Giuseppe Peano
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits. — Rupert Sheldrake
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness. — E. T. Whittaker
The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man. — Jon Elster
T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. — Ronald Reagan
Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution. — L. Ron Hubbard
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 has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. — Northrop Frye
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