Quotes About Principle

Nothing can justify injustice.

It is against the sin of forgiveness that I wanted to warn you.

All I know is, unselfishness is the only moral principle, said Jessica Pratt, the noblest principle and a sacred duty and much more important than freedom. Unselfishness is the only way to happiness. I would have everybody who refused to be unselfish shot. To put them out of their misery. They can't be happy anyway.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best.

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle

A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at.

Though it affected only one family, he believed the ordeal would be of interest to all; already he excelled at inflating a small issue into a larger one, of salvaging radiant principle from a slag heap of detail.

Differences of opinion should not be construed as differences of principle.

honesty very nearly constituted a religious principle for her.* She believed in full candor, which was not the same as full disclosure.

Cases of Conscience

There was a German called Leibniz. "The philosopher? Never heard of him." Entities that cannot be distinguished by any means whatsoever, even in principle, at any time in the past, present, and future have to be considered identical. This is called the Identity of Indiscernibles.

Science seems to have uncovered a set of laws that, within the limits set by the uncertainty principle, tell us how the universe will develop with time, if we know its state at any one time. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is a fundamental, inescapable property of the world. The

Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology, we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics.

The uncertainty principle signaled an end to Laplace's dream of a theory of science, a model of the universe that would be completely deterministic: one certainly cannot predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!

Parece que en la naturaleza hay un cierto nivel de aleatoriedad o incertidumbre, que no se puede eliminar por muy buenas que sean las teorías. Eso se puede resumir en el Principio de Incertidumbre, formulado en 1927 por el científico alemán Werner Heisenberg.

Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle.

redefining the goal of science: our aim is to formulate a set of laws that enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty principle.

We are used to thinking of intelligent life as an inevitable consequence of evolution, but what if it isn't? The Anthropic Principle should warn us to be wary of such arguments. It is more likely that evolution is a random process, with intelligence as only one of a large number of possible outcomes.

Deoarece principiul de incertitudine nu permite s? avem valori exacte atât pentru câmp, cât È™i pentru viteza lui de variaÈ›ie, spaÈ›iul nu e niciodat? gol. El poate avea o starea de energie minim?, numit? vid, dar acea stare e supus? la ceea ce numim fluctuaÈ›ii cuantice sau fluctuaÈ›ii ale vidului.

It can be foolish as all get-out, yes, ma'am. It doesn't make much sense. But I was just taught to hurt no man except the man who hurt me and mine. I have no other star to steer by. That and to do my duty as I understand it. If I followed those two rules, I'd be okay.

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.