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Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice. -- Antoine Rivarol
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words... -- Thomas Carlyle
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms. -- Isaac Newton
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
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
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
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
I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. -- Tom Stoppard
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
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 believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. -- Andrew Motion
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. -- Abraham Lincoln
Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence. -- Samuel Johnson
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. -- John Keats
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. -- Albert Einstein
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms. -- Raheel Farooq
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. -- Will Durant
We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God. -- Charles de Foucauld
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. -- John Allen Paulos
It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge. -- Jerome Hines
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Albert Einstein
It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along. -- George Burns
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate. -- Samuel Johnson
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry. -- David Hilbert
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. -- Emile M. Cioran
In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster. -- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms. -- Lincoln Steffens
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number. -- Alexander Hamilton
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
A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading. -- Blaise Pascal

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