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“The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?”

Challenges Method Assumption Prevailing Strategist

Book:The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

Source: The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

“The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.”

Men Jobs Method Mortals Officials Assumption Censorship Infallible Frail Omnipotent Omniscient Erring

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.”

Ifs Form Air Security Members Increase Method Assumption Fallacy Examining Armament

Author:Stafford Cripps

“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.”

Sometimes Thirds Method Physics Assumption Biology Chemistry

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.”

May Reason Attitude Accepting Atheism Authority Aim Independent Method Lifestyle Defined Assumption Ethical Creeds Outlook Arbitrary Supremacy Scientific Method Mental Attitude

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.”

Science Causes Existence Events Depends Method Assumption Phenomenon Validity

Book:A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

Source: A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

“The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.”

Jobs Depends Method Assumption Formal Correctness Computing

Author:Tony Hoare

“The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.”

Long Stills Levels Generations Trouble Century Birth Method Population Driven Range Assumption Projection Fertility Predicting

Author:Nicholas Eberstadt