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Hypothetical Quotes

Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be Picture Quote #1

What if this weren’t a hypothetical question Picture Quote #1

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it Picture Quote #1

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing’s hypothetical Picture Quote #1

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers Picture Quote #1

That’s what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only Picture Quote #1

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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations Picture Quote #1

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions Picture Quote #1

Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering Picture Quote #1

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth Picture Quote #1

A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think Picture Quote #1

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it’s about solving real problems Picture Quote #1

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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis Picture Quote #1

No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers Picture Quote #1

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before Picture Quote #1

One posthumous measure of a person’s life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain’s hypothetical take on current events several times a week Picture Quote #1

You know, I’ve taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time Picture Quote #1

Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical ‘experience machine’ that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit Picture Quote #1

I’m not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don’t know Picture Quote #1

It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves Picture Quote #1

I don’t think it’s hypothetical whether or not it’s a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter Picture Quote #1

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good Picture Quote #1

With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away Picture Quote #1

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We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature Picture Quote #1

People don’t realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so Picture Quote #1

I don’t know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home Picture Quote #1

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time Picture Quote #1

There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held Picture Quote #1

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity Picture Quote #1

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Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be (Hypothetical Quotes) What if this weren’t a hypothetical question (Hypothetical Quotes) Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it (Hypothetical Quotes) Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing’s hypothetical (Hypothetical Quotes) Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers (Hypothetical Quotes) That’s what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only (Hypothetical Quotes) Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations (Hypothetical Quotes) Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions (Hypothetical Quotes) Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering (Hypothetical Quotes) The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth (Hypothetical Quotes) A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think (Hypothetical Quotes) Leading is not hypothetical debating; it’s about solving real problems (Hypothetical Quotes) To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis (Hypothetical Quotes) No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers (Hypothetical Quotes) We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before (Hypothetical Quotes) One posthumous measure of a person’s life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain’s hypothetical take on current events several times a week. (Hypothetical Quotes) You know, I’ve taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time (Hypothetical Quotes) Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical ‘experience machine’ that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings. (Hypothetical Quotes) Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit. (Hypothetical Quotes) I’m not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don’t know. (Hypothetical Quotes) It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves... (Hypothetical Quotes) I don’t think it’s hypothetical whether or not it’s a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter. (Hypothetical Quotes) It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good. (Hypothetical Quotes) With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away (Hypothetical Quotes) We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature (Hypothetical Quotes) People don’t realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so (Hypothetical Quotes) I don’t know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home (Hypothetical Quotes) The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time (Hypothetical Quotes) There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held (Hypothetical Quotes) If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity (Hypothetical Quotes)

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