“Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.”
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Isaac Asimov303
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992Related quotes
“Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive.”
Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) British writer and journalist
Skye High (1937) p. 240.
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
The Stars in Their Courses (1974), p. 36
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Heinz Isler (1926–2009) engineer
As quoted by Tessa Maurer, Elizabeth O'Grady, Ellen Tung, "Inverse Hanging Membrane: The Naturtheater Grötzingen" http://shells.princeton.edu/Grotz.html ( 2013) Evolution of German Shells Forms: Efficiency of Form, Princeton University Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering.
“Our faith isn't based on what we see,our faith is based on who God is.”
Mercy chinwo (1990) Nigerian Gospel Singer
Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=mercy+chinwo+quotes&oq=mer&aqs=chrome.2.69i59j46i39j69i59j69i60j69i57j69i60l2j46i67i131i433.3786j0j4&client=ms-android-transsion-tecno-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=FJRzFAIjDjdqlM. Mercy Chinwo speaking at entrepreneur.ng
“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”
Alan Dean Foster book Splinter of the Mind's Eye
Source: Splinter of the Mind's Eye
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the annual meeting of the Union of Girls' Schools (27 October 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), pp. 150-151.
1927
Context: Your work in social service, whatever form it may take, requires exactly those two things that my work requires... patience and faith in human worth. Those are the real foundations of democracy, not equality in the sense in which that word is so often used. We are not all equal, and never shall be; the true postulate of democracy is not equality but the faith that every man and woman is worth while.
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Journals of Søren Kierkegaard 1A75, 1835
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s