Hypothesizing Quotes & Sayings

In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change. — Stephen Schneider

Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually. — Thomas Hobbes

Bran could not take his eyes off the blood. The snows around the stump drank it eagerly, reddening as he watched. — George R R Martin

There is nothing wrong in theorizing and hypothesizing; a writer is not an escapist, he creates a world he would love to be in. A world he would rather be in. — Kartik Sharma

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction. — Richard Ford

It seems to me that an often quiet, but often palpable presiding image here ... is the interpretive absorption of the child or adolescent whose sense of personal queerness may or may not (yet?) have resolved ... Such a child - if she reads at all - is reading for important news about herself, without knowing what form that news will take; with only the patchiest familiarity with its codes; without, even, more than hungrily hypothesizing to what questions this news may proffer an answer. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. — Karl Kraus

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. — Bill Gaede

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light. — Ram Dass

Are you sure that's Val?"
"No," said Freddie. "It's Lassie in a wolf suit. — Debra Doyle

Physicists had an explanation for barriers that separated the multiverses from one another. They called it M theory, hypothesizing that the membranes dividing up the dimensions were invisible. — Jeaniene Frost

That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so. — Peter Hain

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it. — Ed O'Neill

They are all black and white and she is color. She is all my colors. — Lauren Blakely

I smile bitterly at him, then weave an illusion of his face across my own. Raffaele's expression flickers in surprise for a moment before settling back into its pool of calm. "They may have a hard time finding me," I reply.
Raffaele gives me a tight smile in return. "Do not underestimate your enemies, Your Majesty," he says. — Marie Lu

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it. — Anthony Giddens

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful. — Frederick Lenz

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. — Publilius Syrus

Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge. — Elaine Ostrach Chaika

You are the light of the world. Shine brightly. Smile beautifully! Rejoice daily! — Brenda M. McGraw

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad. — Topher Grace

He listened to the keening of the wind whistling through holes in the walls, and he pondered the thought that there might be something out there in the dark - God or Devil or something more elemental than either - that looked at humankind as Josh had viewed the roach - less than intelligent, certainly nasty, but struggling onward on its journey, never giving up, fighting through obstacles or going around them, doing whatever it had to do to survive. And he hoped that if the time ever came for that elemental fist to come crashing down, its wielder might take a moment of pause as well. — Robert McCammon