If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
~By Max von Laue ~
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
~By Edward Tufte ~
In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.
~By Jim Evans ~
In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.
~By David Ricardo ~
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
~By Joe Baca ~
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
~By Dee Hock ~
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
~By Bruce Lee ~
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
~By Alan Keyes ~
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
~By Aly Khan ~
The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.
~By Jim Ryun ~
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
~By George Stephenson ~
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
~By James W. Black ~
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
~By Robert Shea ~
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
~By Robert Toombs ~
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
~By Groucho Marx ~
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
~By Edmund Pendleton ~
Damn your principles! Stick to your party.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
~By Eugene V. Debs ~
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
~By Abraham Kuyper ~
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
~By David O. McKay ~
The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
~By Frederick Scott Oliver ~
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
~By Martin Buber ~
The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.
~By Douglas Wood ~
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
~By Kofi Annan ~
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
~By George W. Bush ~
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
~By William Burroughs ~
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.
~By Henry Campbell Bannerman ~
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
~By George Lucas ~
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
~By Dave Eggers ~
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
~By Eric Cantor ~
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
~By Red Skelton ~
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
~By Ernest Istook ~
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
~By Frederick The Great ~
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.
~By Will Carling ~
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.
~By John Boehner ~
I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.
~By Allen West ~
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
~By Rocky Marciano ~
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
~By Jesse Helms ~
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
~By Luther Burbank ~
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
~By Plato ~
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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.
~By Thomas Paine ~
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.
~By John Biddle ~
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
~By Xun Zi ~
I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.
~By John Amery ~
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
~By F. L. Lucas ~
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
~By Ian Smith ~
It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.
~By Eugene Ormandy ~
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
~By Aesop ~
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
~By Bill Owens ~
You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
~By Roy Hattersley ~
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
~By Robert Shea ~
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
~By David Chalmers ~
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
~By Jim Elliot ~
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
~By Alexander Mackenzie ~
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
~By Francis Wright ~
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
~By Thomas Paine ~
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
~By James Sanborn ~
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
~By Joseph Butler ~
The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
~By Walter Pater ~
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