Accepted Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

— Charles H. Townes

“A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the…

— Richie Norton

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

— B. F. Skinner

“For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that our adhesion…

— Thomas Aquinas

When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as…

— Bryan Johnson

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are…

— Christopher Hitchens

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed.…

— Thomas Paine

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

— Stephen Hawking

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

— John Burroughs

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

— Isaac Asimov