Axioms Quotes
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.
Tags: Facts, Greatest, Science ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinA 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.
Tags: Great, Science, Truth ✍ Author: L. Ron HubbardFinally 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.
Tags: Cannot, Simple, Word ✍ Author: Gottfried LeibnizWhen 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.
Tags: Philosophy, Saying, True ✍ Author: Andrew Motion