#axiom

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

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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

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

#science #the-body #science

A great story is life with the dull parts taken out. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#life

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

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

— John Searle

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