Principles Quotes

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Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known… — Jean-Philippe Rameau
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of… — Richard Courant
God intends and expects marriage to be a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman, based on the principles of biblical love. The relationship… — John C. Broger
It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last. — Quint Studer
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and… — Freeman Dyson
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles… — Aristotle
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
Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather,… — W. W. Sawyer
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started… — Ernst Mayr
You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure… — Gordon Brown
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the… — Rudolf Arnheim
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel,… — Heber J. Grant
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of… — Xunzi
No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance. — David Deutsch
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyoneâ€™s graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. — John Buchanan Robinson
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law â€“… — Lee Kuan Yew
The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an… — Bianca Jagger
I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I… — Edward Whitacre, Jr.

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