Quotes About Principles

And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

No science ever defends its first principles.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.