Assumption Quotes

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. (Germaine Greer)
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. View quote
Warren Buffett
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. View quote
Ulrich Beck
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. View quote
Germaine Greer
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive. View quote
Hugh Kingsmill
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way... View quote
Poul Anderson
The effects of 6 months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that 12 months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; 12 months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially. View quote
Harry Harlow
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud, also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level - man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology. View quote
Rollo May
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of your income and I permit you to keep 5%, 10% or 20%. You're vulnerable, you've sold out. The government can take 80% if they want, which they did at one time. (Ron Paul)
My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator. View quote
Paulo Freire
The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments. View quote
Thomas Samuel Kuhn
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority. View quote
Steve Biko
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is [...] female chauvinism. View quote
Betty Friedan
The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. View quote
David Foster Wallace
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. (Murray Bookchin)
But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments. View quote
Stafford Cripps
There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. View quote
Warren E. Burger
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. View quote
Isaac Asimov
On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i. e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time. View quote
Hermann Bondi