Tommy Lee Jones

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

American Actor

Chauncey Wright

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

American Philosopher

Jacques Monod

What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

French Scientist

Richard P. Feynman

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

American Physicist

Hans Adolf Krebs

The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.

German Physicist

Elihu Root

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

American Lawyer

Lao Tzu

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

Chinese Philosopher

Ernest Renan

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

French Philosopher

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.

American Writer

Richard Dawkins

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

English Scientist

Used for presenting the initial assumption that will lead to further arguments or theories.

Starting Point

In proposing a new idea, you don't need evidence for a postulate; it's an accepted starting point.

No Proof Needed

Use it to introduce ideas that need examination or debate within a scholarly context.

Prompts Discussion

Serves as a foundational idea which entire arguments or theories can be built upon.

Theoretical Basis

Often used to state the core element or principle that supports an entire argument.

Argument Core

In discussions, it’s taken for granted without needing to defend its validity.

Unchallenged Acceptance

 long tracks on the... on the dust, the surface. And we always postulated that they would have to have these dust devils, but we had never seem them. We believe that this is one of the reasons the vehicles have lasted so long. Every so often when these dust devils would come by and clean off my solar arrays and make us happy and we make more power

The Curious Life of a...

 so be careful what you wish for. Mallory postulated that there is something in man that responds to the challenge of the mountain, and I wonder if that's the case whether there's something in the challenge itself, in the endeavor, and particularly in the big, unfinished, chunky challenges that face humanity

Why bother leaving the...

 Euclid laid it all out as a logical system of proof built up from a set of definitions, common notions, and his five famous postulates. Four of these postulates are very simple and straightforward, two points determine a line, for example. The fifth one, however, is the seed that grows our story.

Euclid's puzzling...

 Now, I said that mathematicians thought that this was impossible. Here's two creatures who've never heard of Euclid's parallel postulate -- didn't know it was impossible to violate, and they're simply getting on with it. They've been doing it for hundreds of millions of years.

Margaret Wertheim: The...

 Euclid and general relativity now I said that mathematicians thought this was impossible here is two creatures who never heard of Euclid's parallel postulate didn't know it was impossible to violate and they're simply getting on with it they've been doing it for

The beautiful math of...

 postulate that they're probably not communicating between each other they're not advertising themselves by hey i'm blowing you know the males aren't going hey i'm going beautifully purple tonight baby it's not one of those sorts of things what that is

This Platypus Can Glow...

 Physicists sometimes take some aspects of the universe as fundamental building space and time and mass. They postulate fundamental laws governing them, like the laws of gravity or of quantum mechanics. These fundamental properties and laws

How do you explain...

 embraces the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, because the worst that you can say about it is that it's preposterously wasteful. It postulates a vast and rapidly growing number of universes existing in parallel,

Why the universe seems...

 the city postulates a world post mankind something has happened that's a decimated the human population so these are the city after man is gone and it's just the way that buildings age and crumble and nature takes back some

See an Apocalyptic World...

 How is it that the things that make us up have no mass? I've clearly got mass. Where does it come from? And he postulated a suggestion that there's this infinite, incredibly small field stretching throughout the universe,

Postulate