Body Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in…

— Georges Cuvier

Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics…

— Murray Gell-Mann

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…

— Paul Dirac

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

— Neil Gaiman

There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses.…

— David Bohm

'theres a theory for everything & without theory there is no practice'

— Issac Newton

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

— Democritus

Even if we ignore the 'non-theoretical' knowledge which we acquire through experience (such as the knowledge of what something tastes like) and concentrate on…

— Tim Crane

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra