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  • It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction.

  • [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

    Loyalty   Jobs   Science  
  • In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.

    Fighting   Hands   People  
    "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".
  • Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

    Life   Science   Ideas  
  • It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

    "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.
  • Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

    Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”
  • Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.

    Death   Dream   Men  
  • Never answer a hypothetical question.

  • Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

    Unique   Bed   Needs  
    Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brent B. Geary (2000). “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson”, p.17, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers
  • 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.

    Wernher Von Braun (1969). “Space Frontier”
  • An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.

    Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.21, Cambridge University Press
  • Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

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

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.
  • The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

    Unique   Events   Doe  
    "Philosophy in a New Key". Book by Susanne Langer, 1941.
  • Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

  • I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon.

    Light   Play   Names  
  • Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

    Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.225, Penguin
  • 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.

    Truth   Honesty   Simple  
    Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers
  • The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

    1921 The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls,'Woman'.
  • No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

    "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 14, 1933.
  • Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

    Stupid   Wine   Men  
  • If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.

    "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.
  • That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

    Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
  • In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

  • Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I'm not worried about a hypothetical that's never going to happen.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

    Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.225, Penguin
  • The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

  • I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.

    Source: www.wbur.org
  • God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

    Mind   Mules   Sticks  
  • They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

    Order   World   Advantage  
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