Quotes About Postulates

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

Very few of us in our saner moments believe that the particular postulates that some logicians have dreamed up create the numbers - no, most of us believe that the real numbers are simply there and that it has been an interesting, amusing, and important game to try to find a nice set of postulates to account for them.

Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.

a system of postulates, mathematical relationships, data, and inferences that form a basis for describing a scientific process or sequence of events. These models need to be tested against new observations to see how well they hold up. That's a big part of the scientific method.

Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he's perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you've got to stick to one set of postulates. You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason.

The mind is not some organ that does the sense-making. That role belongs to the brain. The mind is a product of our sense-making activity. It is what our sense-making postulates when it tries to make sense of itself.

Fundamental to the conceptual framework of the theory is that, despite these completely different physical designs, both kinds of networks are constrained by the same three postulates: they are space filling, have invariant terminal units, and minimize the energy needed to pump fluid through the system.

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

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason — if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

The entire formal structure of quantum mechanics can be in large measure expressed in two simple postulates:1 The relevant information in any physical system is finite. You can always obtain new information on a physical system.

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates ... so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else ...?

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.

The postulates state that before a microorganism can be said to cause a given disease, first, investigators had to find the germ in every case of the disease; second, they had to isolate the germ in pure culture; third, they had to inoculate a susceptible animal with the germ and the animal then had to get the disease; and, fourth, the germ had to be isolated from the test animal. Koch's postulates

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.