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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. -- Joan Baez
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. -- Sidney Altman
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home. -- Thom Gunn
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
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
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
What if there were no hypothetical questions? -- George Carlin
What if there were no hypothetical situations? -- Christopher Jones
Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems. -- John Yarmuth
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only. -- Sebastian Faulks
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. -- Dan Savage
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! -- Martha Beck
You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time. -- Bill Bennett
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis. -- William Osler
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. -- Carl Jung
The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual. -- Mark Helprin
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before. -- Craig Venter
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play. -- Dana Schutz
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
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
I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled. -- Sanjay Dutt
I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter. -- Rand Paul
A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory. -- William John Macquorn Rankine
If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them. -- Mary Roach
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
I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible. -- Claude Lanzmann
Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour. -- Stephen King
What if there were no such thing as a hypothetical situation? What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word QUALITY cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate, and direct. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit. -- Lewis B. Smedes
There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical. -- Randy Pausch
One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain's hypothetical take on current events several times a week. -- Paul Di Filippo
Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
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. -- A. J. Liebling
Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings. -- Martin Seligman
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Never answer a hypothetical question. -- Moshe Arens
Trust doesn't need any proof, its always hypothetical. -- Chandan Sharma
Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy. -- William J. Clinton
Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical. -- Alan Moore
I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical. -- Dan Mangan
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations. -- Jasper Fforde
Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be. -- George H. W. Bush
It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical. -- Jim Peebles
I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know. -- John F. Kerry
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds. -- John Green
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. -- Lev Grossman
Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I'm not worried about a hypothetical that's never going to happen. -- Marco Rubio
It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good. -- Leonard Woolf
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God. -- Walter Martin
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So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind. -- Orson Scott Card
The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time. -- George Jean Nathan
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. -- Isabel Allende
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. -- Albert Einstein
I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that. -- Thomston
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
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. -- Gilbert N. Lewis
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now. -- Gregg Easterbrook
A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think. -- Palmer Luckey
It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there. -- Nora Ephron
....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist. -- Joanna Russ
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. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
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

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