Axioms Quotes
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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 as we have never heard questioned
Thomas Carlyle
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[quoted in Life magazine, 9 January 1950] 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
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It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.
Alex Thiermann
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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.
Alexander Ryazanov
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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.
Alex Thiermann
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Experimental syntax, of a mathematical type, geared to referential axioms, may help further along these lines - or others not imagined as yet.
Allen Rossum
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
