Axioms Quote by Bertrand Russell

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as…

— Moses Mendelssohn

“The power of these first two axioms will be what everything that follows is built on. Yet everything that follows is merely a way…

— Shanti Christo Foundation

“Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.”

— Peter Green

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

— Serge Lang

There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may…

— Steve Hagen

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

— Laura van den Berg

“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each…

— Frank Herbert

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

— Anonymous

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

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In…

— David Berlinski

“The axiom of equality states that x always equals x: it assumes that if you have a conceptual thing named x, that it must…

— Hanya Yanagihara

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

— Aldous Huxley