Quotes About Assumption

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

What exactly was your plan here, Mr. Andrews? To just walk in and flash your little smile, no questions asked?

Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.

Most marketing mistakes stem from the assumption that you're fighting a product battle rooted in reality.

However disgruntled or puzzled a social hierarchy may leave us feeling, we are apt to go along with it on the resigned assumption that it is too entrenched and must be too well founded to be questioned. We are led to believe, in other words, that communities and the principles underpinning them are, practically speaking, immutable— even, somehow, natural.

The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.

Asumption: monogamy is the natural state of love.(...) It is not! It is an infantile idealism to wish to find everything in one other being

However, the immediacy with which aesthetic judgments arise should not fool us into assuming that their origins are entirely natural or their verdicts unalterable.

There is dangerous innocence in the expectation of a future formed on the basis of probability.

Nada que no asuma un riesgo calculado con la fealdad puede ser bello.

It is common to assume that we are dealing with a highly intelligent book when we cease to understand it.

Making believe you know will get you farther than making believe you don't know.

n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là" ("I have no need for that assumption

Other double binds are false. This is one of the latter. There is an unspoken premise of the argument in favor of wind turbines: that harvesting energy is more important than birds and bats. That some sacrifices (billions of sacrifices, in this case) are justifiable to provide industrial humans with energy. This is, of course, the usual human supremacist assumption. The only way out of a double bind is to smash it. That's what we must do.

That's unnatural.' 'Some would call it a miracle. Careful of the word unnatural. It reeks of arrogance. You are assuming you know the boundaries of nature. You don't. There is more to life than your eyes can see. More than you can ever imagine. Nature comes from the mind of God. It is infinite. The finite human mind can never fathom it in totality.

his brother the benefit of the doubt. Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump to conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand.

Is it logical," Kirk said, using the word cannily, "to assume the ship was stolen by a full-capacity crew?" "No, sir." Spock tipped his head. "Her crew complement is five hundred. The odds against so many people developing leftist attitudes simultaneously, at one starbase, without a leak, are nine thousand—" "About the same odds as your giving us an answer without decimal points," McCoy barbed. "I think we've been baited.

one should never assume anything

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

Those who hold power and influence in government either have limited interest in implementation or, in particular in the case of the prime minister and his most senior advisors, cannot find time in their busy agenda to think about implementation. They all too often assume that the machinery of government will do as it is told.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.