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
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. — Raheel Farooq 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
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
“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media… — David Hackworth 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
“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This… — Alfred Renyi 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
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and… — Catharine Cox Miles Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — 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
“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words… Be not the slave of Words... — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
