Advantage Quote by Bertrand Russell Download Open image “The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work.” — Bertrand Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advantage Honest Honest work Method
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization. — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method. — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in… — Kelly Blatz Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share Image