Principle Quotes

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[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or… — M. King Hubbert
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which… — Unknown Author
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given… — Robert Mayer
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery… — Allan Sandage
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. — Benjamin Franklin
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between… — Howard W. Hunter
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different… — Louis Adamic
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys… — Ezra Taft Benson
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude — Charles Caleb Colton
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with… — Vladimir Putin
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable… — Pope Leo XIII
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle:… — Albert Einstein
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man… — Neal A. Maxwell
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… — Martin Filler
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty… — Lysander Spooner
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other… — Morris West
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of… — Edward Hoagland
The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and… — Maurice Strong

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