postulate quotes

The scientific attitude implies†the postulate of objectivitythat is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan; that there is no intention in the universe.

-Jacques Monod
  Le Hasard et la Nece  ssite  .

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God whichare incompatible with themovement of pure charity are false.

- Simone Weil
Letter to a Priest (translated byA F Wills, published1954).