Axioms Quote by Antoine Rivarol Download Open image “Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.” — Antoine Rivarol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Axioms Delightful Impossible Maxims Practice Theory
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization. — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it. — Nicholas Winton Copy Share Image
In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles,… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl 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; in the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God. — Charles de Foucauld Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose… — Saddam Hussein 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 construed differently.… — Elizabeth Keckley 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 the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of… — David Hilbert 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 levels, so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
