#premise

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#capacity #creation #premise #puzzled #science

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dared #draw #machine #premises #press

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#always #appealed #based #been #bottles

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#arrive #concern #conclusions #exposition #follow

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#environment #interdependent #premise #simple

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#because #being #britain #coming #each

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#every #family #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#basic #clone #cloning #dead #die

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. ↗

— DMX

#fundamental #guilty #important #innocence #judicial

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. ↗

— Roy Moore

#balances #basic #because #checks #constitution