Quotes About Hypothetical

ago he had made a pact with himself to postulate a created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days—since each hypothesis, whole paradoxical, avoided the paradoxes of the other—with a day off each leap year for sheer solipsist debauchery.

A real person, open-ended, can only be approached as a hypothesis. A character in fiction is demanded to be accountable. Some characters are more willing to offer a context. The young women in Jane Austen's novels, for instance, seek happiness and suffer when happiness is made unavailable, by situation, chance, or folly.

la fusión de la infotecnología y la biotecnología abre la puerta a un sinfín de situaciones hipotéticas sobre el tema del fin del mundo, que van de las dictaduras digitales a la creación de una clase inútil global.

the underlying issue has nothing to do with a hypothetical choice between the "free market" and government. Decisions must be made about whether a particular company or group of companies has "excessive" market power.

was all uniformity;—he was systematical, and, like all systematic reasoners, he would move both heaven and earth, and twist and torture every thing in nature to support his hypothesis.

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

you don't get far in political discourse with counterfactual arguments that "it would have been even worse.

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

And maybe 'if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas

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.

Stanislavski called this the "Magic if …," the daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything seems possible.

Hope, after all, is not unreasonable. It's simply hypothetical.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

scenario planners attempt to sketch out a wide range of these hypothetical futures, where the main aim is not so much to decide which of these scenarios is most likely as to challenge possibly unstated assumptions that underpin existing strategies.18

No one knows what they'll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Dal mio quarto piano sull'infinito, nella plausibile intimità della sera che sopraggiunge, a una finestra che dà sull'inizio delle stelle, i miei sogni si muovono con l'accordo di un ritmo, con una distanza rivolta verso viaggi a paesi ignoti, o ipotetici, o semplicemente impossibili.

In the plausible intimacy of approaching evening, as I stand waiting for the stars to begin at the window of this fourth floor room that looks out on the infinite, my dreams move to the rhythm required by long journeys to countries as yet unknown, or to countries that are simply hypothetical or impossible.

Should I one day take an earthly woman to wife, pray for me the following: that she at any rate be sterile. But also ask, should you pray for me, that I never come to have this hypothetical wife.

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

A model of the psychical apparatus that pictures behaviour as a resultant of a hypothetical psychical energy that is seeking discharge was adopted by Freud almost at the beginning of his psychoanalytical work.