As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge. — Jerome Hines Copy Share Image
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
