I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly… — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image
Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“Note from Tim Ferriss: I asked Tim to share a fun piece of related background. Here it is. In early 2015, Elon… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
