Quotes of: Axiom Keyword

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

Letters of John Keats

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 these can be constructed a great deal.

L. Ron Hubbard

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only be...

Andrew Motion

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Aneurin Bevan

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Fernand Leger

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Walt Alston

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WALL·E

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Raheel Farooq

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

John Searle

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 axioms.

Albert Einstein

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 of the axioms of physics.

Henry Adams

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

Chris Jordan

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

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Jill Lepore

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

Alonzo Church

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

Crime and Punishment

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

The Dosadi Experiment

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

A Happy Death

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.

The Invention of Morel

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 cannot be proved and have no need of proof.

Gottfried Leibniz