Axioms Quotes
41 quotes by 35 authors
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one…
— Henry Adams
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most…
— Francis Bacon
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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments:…
— Isaac Newton
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression…
— George Polya
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The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can…
— Kurt Gödel
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I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line…
— David Hilbert
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If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of…
— Saddam Hussein
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Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than…
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
— Jerome Hines
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You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think…
— Stephen King
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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life…
— J I Packer
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Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has…
— Childe Hassam
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An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the…
— David Berlinski
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An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list…
— David Berlinski
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Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be…
— Alfred Renyi
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We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.
— Charles de Foucauld
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The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus…
— Eric Temple Bell
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When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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