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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Alan Lightman
Assumption, Conflict, Universe
Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.32, Vintage

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

Al Sharpton
Party, People, Assumption
Source: www.foxnews.com

And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.

Al Gore
Earth, Assumption, Social

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Agatha Christie
Information, Assumption, Failing
Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

Adrienne Rich
Motherhood, Assumption, Mesh
Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

Aberjhani
Black, Assumption, Individual

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