#proposition

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#any #data #definite #derived #embodied

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#almost #any #anything #assent #get

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. ↗

— Herodotus

#before #best #bidding #certainly #choose

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#costs #deeply #did #hard #i

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#college #friends #going #got #i

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. ↗

— Dean Smith

#death #every #game #going #life

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. ↗

— H. Allen Smith

#created #dedicated #i #i am #jerks

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. ↗

— George Soros

#ago #already #ballot #being #could

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition. ↗

— Juan Cole

#always #another #country #proposition #tricky