Leandra Medine

I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines.

American Author

Rush Limbaugh

You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.

American Entertainer

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

Henry Adams

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.

American Historian

John George Nicolay

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

American Writer

Albert Einstein

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.

German Physicist

Vincent McNabb

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

Irish Clergyman

Fernand Leger

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

French Artist

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

British Writer

Laura van den Berg

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

In logic or math, an axiom is a starting point for reasoning, not questioned or tested.

Unquestioned Premise

Axioms form the foundation of logical arguments or mathematical proofs.

Foundational Importance

An axiom shouldn't be confused with a theorem, which is proven based on axioms and definitions.

Not a Proof

Outside technical fields, an axiom is a widely acknowledged truth in everyday language.

Broadly Accepted

Some axioms reflect cultural beliefs and may vary between societies.

Cultural Context

Axioms often appear in common sayings or phrases that express a general truth.

Common Phrases

 So next, the scientific method -- an axiom of physics, of all science -- says you cannot prove a hypothesis through observation, you can only disprove it. What this means is you can gather more and more data around a hypothesis or a positioning, and it will strengthen it, but it will not conclusively prove it.

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 The blue line is the number of cyclists, soaring. The green line is the number of bike lanes. And the yellow line is the number of injuries, which has remained essentially flat. After this big expansion, you've seen no net increase in injuries, and so there is something to that axiom

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 By speaking in someone else's voice, I was experimenting with detachment from ideas I grew up thinking where axioms. We're in a strange place where our problem is the abundance of information, where the majority of people have a platform to be heard,

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 the proof was accepted because it relied on axioms that everyone in the field already agreed on. Of course, many disagreements involve different beliefs that can’t simply be reconciled through logic. When these beliefs involve outside information,

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 but he revolutionized the way in which it is written, presented, and thought about. Euclid set out to formalize mathematics by establishing the rules of the game. These rules of the game are called axioms. Once you have the rules,

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 and preserve and improve our democracy what about you nicole is there anything that's giving you hope well i you know i i have to i mean like being an organizer i i always fall back on like our axioms for organizers where you

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 if you'll bear with me. In math, a group is a particular collection of elements. That might be a set of integers, the face of a Rubik's Cube, or anything, so long as they follow four specific rules, or axioms.

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 undeniable statements about the numbers involved. Every system built on mathematics, from the most complex proof to basic arithmetic, is constructed from axioms. And if a statement about numbers is true,

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 There's an axiom in physics called the uncertainty principle. It teaches that the mere fact of observation can alter, will alter, the subatomic reaction being observed. In other words,

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 which solved pre-university-level problems from end to end, like this one. This is the original problem written in Japanese, and we had to teach it 2,000 mathematical axioms

Axiom

A statement that is accepted as true without proof.

Often appears as...

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A statement or principle that is generally accepted to be true.

Often appears as...

Unquestioned Premise

Foundational Importance

Not a Proof

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