Quotes with premises

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  • Albert Einstein A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ayn Rand Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • William Zinsser Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Samuel Butler Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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