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...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.
We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'
I'm politically incorrect. I don't get into politics like that. I speak about what I know and what effects me personally, and effects my folks.
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on.
The claim made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the refugee question is a German problem is incorrect. It is a European problem.
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.
Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.
Probably about 90 percent of the things that you read that supposedly came out of my mouth in regards to the Motley guys, usually most of it is incorrect. At the end of the day, I have no ill will.
It's important for people to, instead of automatically assuming everything the opposite side says is incorrect, you have to at least listen and see why someone might feel a certain way.
Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.
The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it.
It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.
There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions.
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.
I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it was the logical connection of the concepts, not the figure, that was essential.
In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
If you look at it closely, 'Mankatha' is a politically incorrect film. It explores the darker side of the human mind, and I think, while watching it, people are, in a sense, redeeming themselves of their own guilt.
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at the last moment, stopped myself from putting it out in print. I thought it would be misunderstood, be a politically incorrect thing to do.
Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced during my tenure on the bench.
To say that I wanted to become the captain is entirely incorrect. When Dhoni became captain and I played under him, we won the T20 World Cup.
I've never had a haircut where I've gone to a hair cutting place and they gave me an incorrect haircut. So I've been pretty lucky.
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.
If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place.
There's something about when it gives a shockingly incorrect answer with the same chirpy HAL 9000 voice that feels so hopeful. Watson won't get discouraged, it will just try again.
I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.
Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.
I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.
When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.
Bill Maher and I are on against each other, and we're friends. He can do my show any time he wants, and I've done Politically Incorrect several times. There's no reason to think competition has to be adversarial.
I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.
Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.
Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.
Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.
I wish I could be on 'Politically Incorrect.' Because Bill Maher basically dismisses teenagers, and I think I could give my generation a good name.
Making assumptions taught me a lot as a producer, because it's something I never do now.
Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.
