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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

Topics: Aim Axiom Cover Deduction Empirical Facts Grand Greatest Greatest Number Hypotheses Logical Number Science Smallest

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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

Topics: Annoyed Assuming Assumptions Axiom Choice Contrary Could Fail Look Mathematicians Maybe Might Only Presumption Should Some The Only Thing Thing

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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

Topics: Absolutely Axiom Be True Believe Feel He Keats Means Necessarily Only Our Out Philosophy Poem Proved Saying Says Tells True Until Us Way

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

~Aneurin Bevan

Topics: Ages Axiom Enforced Experience Politically Rule Who Will

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

~Arthur Conan Doyle

Topics: Axiom Been Important Infinitely Little Little Things Long Mine Most The Most Important Things

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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

Topics: Apathy Around Art Axiom Choose Either Engage Feedback Ideas Live Performance Political Politics Ties Without You

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Any Any Other Way Axiom Done Eyes Forgotten Front Gold Got Growth His Hold Idea Long Make Man Other Way Work You

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

~Fernand Leger

Topics: Assume Axiom Dogma General Must Painting Recognized Truth Understanding Validity

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