#hypothetical

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #know #philosophy #taught #time

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#imagination #time-travel #imagination

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#home #how #hypothetical #i #know

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. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#assign #beyond #continuing #entities #extensions

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

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. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#even #hypothetical #interactions #molecules #more

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. ↗

— Dan Savage

#every #everyone #hypothetical #person #question

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ↗

— Joan Baez

#get #hypothetical #questions

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#different #directors #gradually #had #how

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#both #combines #hypothetical #literal #real