Quotes About Hypothetical

I still think in a parallel universe, I became a mathematician.

Posible, pero no interesante —respondió Lönnrot—. Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menor obligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que la realidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero no las hipótesis.

Pour exciter le cheval, il faut exciter la mouche ; pour exciter la mouche, il faut exciter toutes les autres mouches, cercle vicieux comme hypothèse universelle, que l'humanité n'a jamais transgressé.

Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

this route is only one of several imaginary paths.

Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me.

It is, of course, quite impossible to make forecasts about the future except on the hypothetical postulate that in all matters where the nature of changes cannot be definitely foreseen and taken into account, the future is assumed to be a continuance of the past.

Questions, Hypothetical: Needn't be answered. No one knows why. Schools, Public: They teach you to stand on your own two feet. 'No doors on the lavatories. That sorts the men from the boys'. Snobbery, Inverted: The worst kind. No need to explain why.

Prospective users hear the blockchain hype and assume the hypothetical plans are real products that exist now — though "the blockchain could" is a phrase that really means "the blockchain doesn't," because if it did, they'd say that.

A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

But all this is pure conjecture and hypothesis, yet there are times when the lives of others, of another (the configuration of a life, its continuation, not a few mere steps), do depend on our decisions and vacillations, on our cowardice or daring, on our words and on our hands, and sometimes on the fact that we have money and they do not.

Address the implications of the alternate view. Another thing Peter might say is, "Let's put aside for a minute the question of whether this complaint is true and instead ask what if it were true? What would it mean? What would be the implications for you?

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain's hypothetical take on current events several times a week.

We are too willing to reap death to save a hypothetical life.

It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly.

Then don't criticize if you can't offer a solution," said Dorian. "It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations - then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly.