Best Axioms Quotes

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How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to… — Joseph Sobran
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs… — Thomas Carlyle
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is… — Etty Hillesum
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any… — Ayn Rand
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or… — Albert Einstein
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on… — L. Ron Hubbard
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein
A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a… — Jonathan Stroud
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. — John Keats
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. — Gretchen Rubin
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It… — Tom Stoppard
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely… — Sherwin B. Nuland
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which… — Gottfried Leibniz
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate… — Blaise Pascal

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