Firsts Quote by B. F. Skinner

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest…

— Nicholas of Cusa

Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first…

— Elon Musk

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried…

— Aristotle

First-principles thinking sets goals in known terms and then pursues them, inventing and learning new things as necessary, but it rarely uncovers brand new…

— Bryan Johnson

After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn…

— Koichi Tohei

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

— Winston Churchill

I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever, just like…

— Charles Koch

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate…

— Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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

“Principles are more important than methods.”

— Sven Kohlhaas

When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as…

— Bryan Johnson