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Their thinking was that music lovers can thin-slice a new song in a matter of seconds, and there is nothing wrong with that idea in principle. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
It’s a little anxiety-provoking, how this innocuous multiplication principle can make our mortality more vivid. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Polling with Confidence Estimating characteristics of a population, such as the percentage who favor a certain candidate or a particular brand of dog food, is, like hypothesis testing, simple in principle. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Franklin wanted to put slavery onto the national agenda before it was too late to take decisive action in accord with the principles of the Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The first is the limitation that the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics sets on our powers of prediction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had to run through the Saturday-morning deliveries pretty quickly, which wasn’t hard, as you might remember, since not everyone knows the basic principle of physical science. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
David Hume, in his 1748 book, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, wrote, “There appear to be only three principles of connections among ideas, namely Resemblance, Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
He had been learning about journalism at school, from a textbook, and it seemed to him that his father had abridged some basic journalistic principle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
He had a simple, buoying faith that if you stuck to your principles, things would work out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
In a manual of general principles and rules that served as a blueprint for the industry, Pinkerton admitted that the detective must at times “depart from the strict line of truth” and “resort to deception.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
They realize that saving themselves is as easy as using basic scientific principles to build lots of booby traps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
See assume/ presume, pages 89—90. principal/principle. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
I told them I believed in the Freedom Charter, that the charter embodied principles of democracy and human rights, and that it was not a blueprint for socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Here was no principle good or bad, no direction. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
They convinced me that, according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet again, ‘false conclusions are drawn from false principles,’ though at least he does not claim to have tried the method and proved that it works., The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the “bloofer lady” should be the popular rôle at these al fresco performances. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe cannot have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was forced to leave the law firm where he worked when he refused on principle to represent a liquor dealer in court. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
These scholars present science as being about rhetoric, persuasion and authority because the symmetry principle obliges them to assume that that is all it can be about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Tommy’s facility for making a far-out idea seem plausible set Francis to wondering whether an argument could be made for a “perfect biological principle.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
I had to make up my mind quickly; I was faced with a matter of principle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Congress of the People was to create a set of principles for the foundation of a new South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Like Walter, he said he was not in principle against negotiations, and I responded exactly as I had with Walter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The existence of such elites goes against the most fundamental principles of natural selection, since these dominant members of society willingly give up procreation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
We also discussed whether the campaign should follow Gandhian principles of nonviolence, or what the Mahatma called satyagraba, a nonviolence that seeks to conquer through conversion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some, however, go much further and propose a strong version of the principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
With no less than the animating principle of the universe: “azoth,” the secret essence alchemists had sought for centuries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
‘The treatment of natural things differs greatly from that of other sciences...In the explanation of natural causes, we must necessarily have recourse to a different kind of principle, called “hypothesis” or “supposition”. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
He interpreted Bodin, quite wrongly, as advocating a very large sphere of earth floating in a sphere of water, thus retaining the core principles of a traditional Aristotelian argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Grasping for analogies, Aristotle called the male contribution a “principle of movement.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
There is no obvious reason why the principles which have acted so efficiently under domestication should not have acted under Nature.... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Thus, in principle, belief in magic ought to decline with improvements in technology, particularly medicine, and the beginnings of insurance policies and other methods of reducing the impact of unforeseen disasters. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Our first principles told us that Pauling could not be the greatest of all chemists without realizing that DNA was the most golden of all molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
The only answer that I can give to this problem is based on Darwin’s principle of natural selection. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
This bit of common sense, sometimes termed the pigeonhole or Dirichlet drawer principle, can occasionally be used to derive claims that are not so obvious. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“You covered the basics very clearly, sir. The principles you mentioned today will lay a good foundation for the other students in the class.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
The first scribes had to settle on basic principles that we now take for granted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“There’s the principles of distillation. You do know he’s trying to turn pecans into liquor, right? Although it’s not going so well, but don’t say I said so, okay?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
By the end of the nineteenth century, the American medical community finally accepted the principles of germ theory. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
You won't believe in my invisibility and you'll fail to see how any principle that applies to you could apply to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Goldman wasn’t much interested in physics, but it struck him that some of the same mathematical principles the group was using might be helpful in deciding whether someone was suffering a heart attack. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
It is an important property of the force-carrying particles that they do not obey the exclusion principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and law, and scorned and crushed the insane promptings of a frenzied moment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
The principle of the Farm was work or die; but there were leniencies in practice-gaps between work and death, provided by the guards. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
It seems better to employ the principle of economy known as Occam’s razor and cut out all the features of the theory that cannot be observed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Technology came first, because it is possible to make machines by trial and error without fully understanding the principles on which they operate. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
In the face of these it was best to move quickly and without reservations, as Horace himself did as a matter of principle. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
That comes in handy in implementing the two principles of composition when they would otherwise be stymied by the rigid word order of English. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
According to Archimedes’ principle, if water were to occupy the volume of the block which is under water, that water would weigh the same as the whole block. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
For fifty years, the ANC had treated nonviolence as a core principle, beyond question or debate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“We are in the presence of a new principle of the highest importance,” he told the lecture hall. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle applies to more than just measurements performed by humans. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
As I wrote I followed, almost unconsciously, many principles of the novel which my reading of the novels of other writers had made me feel were necessary for the building of a well-constructed book. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z
One occurred while they were drinking beer after an evening talk by the astronomer Tommy Gold on “the perfect cosmological principle.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
Same principle, but I came up with an improvement: submerge the RTG. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
A necessary first step, therefore, is to combine general relativity with the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
But really, he was a hobby of Jack’s, living proof of some leveling principle he had pursued through the years. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
These stars would be supported by the exclusion principle repulsion between neutrons and protons, rather than between electrons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Whatever its chemical constituents, the transforming principle was not composed of sugars, lipids, or proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Compared to the other tragedies, which were dominated by recognizable principles of justice no matter how harsh, it was a triumph of barbarism over reason: dark, chaotic, inexplicable. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
He disliked Mordred irrationally, as a dog dislikes a cat—and he felt ashamed of the dislike, because it was a confused principle of his to help the younger Knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
Madison’s prudent and silent intervention rescued Jefferson from the secessionist implications of his revolutionary principles and artfully concealed the huge discrepancy between their respective views of the Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
“He may be a first-class machinist, but he knows nothing about scientific principles,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
The quarters of all the nearby plantations were thoroughly searched and no small number of slaves beaten on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
It is the principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of Vietnam.... Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Julian was uninvolved in Isrami politics despite his fondness for the princess and his sympathy—on principle—with royalists instead of revolutionaries. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
One of these moral principles was that it was never a sin to charge as much as the traffic would bear. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
He soon aspired to construct a new science of morality and politics on geometrical principles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The insight, which would be implemented in an accelerator known as the synchrotron, was a breakthrough on a par with Lawrence’s own recognition of the cyclotron principle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
We hoped that the government and ordinary South Africans would see that the principles they were fighting for in Europe were the same ones we were advocating at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In attempting to incorporate the uncertainty principle into general relativity, one has only two quantities that can be adjusted: the strength of gravity and the value of the cosmological constant. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
And because nature was the embodiment of reason it was, in principle, possible to deduce how things had to be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
These details did not help him, for the principle of their unity was undiscoverable, and he could not tell what he most passionately desired to know: whether his face was ugly or not. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z
Voting on principles was hardly a new phenomenon, but it seemed to go a step further in 1988. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z
One cannot deny that it is more difficult to extract general principles from studying history than from studying planetary orbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Yet the strong anthropic principle would claim that this whole vast construction exists simply for our sake. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
By following this principle, the movement would achieve its short-term goal of integrating lunch counters, theaters, buses, and motels. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
I started to think a lot about infinity, and what it was like there, and how all the postulates and theorems and principles were true across all the universe. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
My trig equations were far beneath his abilities, but if he was bored he didn’t show it; he just explained the principles patiently, over and over. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
However, given Einstein’s record of ill-founded opposition to gravitational collapse and the uncertainty principle, maybe this was an encouraging sign. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
A child of the Counter-Reformation, Descartes learned about Aristotle at the very moment when the church was relying upon his principles the most. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Critics of the Constitution, then and now, have condemned it as a betrayal of the core principles of the American Revolution, an American version of France’s Thermidorian reaction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Not only is grafting hard work even once you know the principle, but the principle itself could have been discovered only through conscious experimentation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
“I would never abandon my principles or ideals.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z
He scrunched his nose on principle as he descended the last set of stairs and headed down the hall that opened up to it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z
Perhaps if he had time the principles of this device could be unraveled, but for now he would have to improvise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z
The Nazis called this philosophy the “leadership principle,” and it required absolute obedience to superiors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
I deeply venerated my cousin’s talent and principle. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Though as a matter of principle he maintained skepticism for a few moments, the similarly shaped A-T and G-C pairs had their expected impact. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z
The discovery of atomic structure and the uncertainty principle put an emphatic end to that. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Well, they try to deduce all of mathematics from simple logical principles and show that mathematics is really based on logic. It’s pretty complicated stuff. But I enjoy it.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
The game remained close, both combatants missing shots they should have made and sinking baskets that defied all principles of the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
For it purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws—in effect, to discipline a truly continental union—while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The no boundary condition, however, implied that these fluctuations were as small as they could be, consistent with the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
But even that landmark precedent, so crucial in establishing the republican principle of rotation in office, paled in comparison to an even more elemental political and psychological realization. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
As Paul was growing up, a half generation before Reggie came of age, there was a coming together of these two fundamental computing principles, Moore’s law and Metcalfe’s law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
There are two versions of the anthropic principle, the weak and the strong. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
According to that book, the principles of spire fighting stated that everyone has a light deep inside them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z
Among the members of the inspection task force, Lawrence and Mills were willing to entertain the idea of a test ban in principle but were pessimistic that it could be adequately monitored. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The principle at issue was straightforward: natural facts must be replicable and reproducible if they are to count as facts at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
I am not a man who approves of oaths or curses, but that day I violated my own principle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Moreover, I could not claim to be opposed to war as a matter of general principle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I felt a new inspiration in life and was enthused with new ideas of individual rights and the basic principles of government.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
“Lay the stones level, that’s the first principle in keeping a wall from shifting and falling down. “The second is to lay the stones one on two, two on one. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
“Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
The general conclusion was unmistakable: in principle, DNA could be crystallized into a form amenable to X-ray diffraction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
For one, it was an ocean away, foreigners hurting and killing other foreigners, and the Nazis weren’t Americans; they didn’t have the principles of freedom and democracy that we had. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z
This looks to us like a principle, maxim, or rule of thumb, not a law, because it lacks specificity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
He doubted whether the republican principles planted by the founding generation would grow in foreign soil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Mercy toward animals is just one of the principles that gets thrown out the window. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
This was constructed on the snout principle, since it was found that if one had an ugly helmet it frightened the enemy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s an essential principle of the project that humans not come in direct contact with the released bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
A third principle is that indirect discourse is not always introduced with an expression like he said that or she thought that; sometimes it is implicit in the context. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
That evening, I consulted with my friend and mentor, K.D., who felt that as a matter of principle I was correct to resign, and should not capitulate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Like the laws of thermodynamics, the principle applies to nature itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
What curious principle demands that a candle flame taper always toward the sky? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
“I didn’t set out to. I’ve just read it so much, it memorized itself. Anyway, what I was going to say was, that sounds a bit like the uncertainty principle.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Ironically, despite Bobby’s unwillingness to follow principles espoused by the Church, his life still revolved around it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
With the Earth the center of the Universe, with creation pivoted about terrestrial events, with the heavens imagined constructed on utterly unearthly principles, there was little motivation for astronomical observations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Or is there some general principle of failure basic to the whole procedure? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z
In contrast, the ‘maker’s knowledge’ principle implies that if I do make a vacuum in a laboratory then I have a real understanding of what it is that I have made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Science is thus a cross-cultural language which any culture can in principle learn to speak, and which any technologically sophisticated culture will already have learnt to speak. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Can I bear the consciousness that every endearment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Like Fleeming Jenkin, Galton quickly realized that his cousin had got the principle right, but not the mechanism: the nature of inheritance was crucial to the understanding of Darwin's theory. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
The basic principles involved had been described by Euclid and were well understood in the Middle Ages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It’s supposed to make it easier for them to change their allegiance from family to faction—to embrace the principle “faction before blood.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z
Has God placed in our hands the keys to the ultimate principles of his power? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The garrulous ferret showed the rats that he possessed a sound knowledge of the principles of fulcrum and leverage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
The city would be ruled by the principles of the Pilgrim’s God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Many words convey subtle shades of meaning, provide glimpses into the history of the language, conform to elegant principles of assembly, or enliven prose with distinctive imagery, sound, and rhythm. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The principle had been discovered; but many, many years were to elapse before that principle was usefully applied. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
The little bird, the little fish, the little animal learn not by principle, but empirically; and when he learn to do, then there is to him the ground to start from to do more. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
This chapter also familiarizes the reader with each method’s philosophy and principles, unique pedagogy, and practices and activities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
There are a number of objections that one can raise to the strong anthropic principle as an explanation of the observed state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Our starting point in Chapter 5 is the invention of perspective painting, which involved the application of geometrical principles to pictorial representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
He characteristically decided to stand on principle in a major civil rights case. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z
In the midst of my pain of heart and frantic effort of principle, I abhorred myself. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Inside was what Kurnakov described as a “neatly written report” outlining the basic scientific principles of the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had read extensively into law and politics and understood that political machines operated on a first principle of power: If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
To his credit, Reynie recognized the names of a few places, a few mathematic principles, and one or two important historical figures, but it wouldn’t do him any good. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
“During my admission, you said that my admittance to the Arcanum was granted, contingent upon proof that I had mastered the basic principles of sympathy.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
But aside from inventing a Latinate name for a vague principle, Wolff could provide no further specifics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
The second of the principles of epidemics — that little changes can somehow have big effects — is also a fairly radical notion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
When have I ever expressed an interested in British royalty, a concept with which I don’t even agree on principle? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z
Discovered in the mid-1920s by German physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the exclusion principle states, roughly, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
To accelerator designers, it is a principle as fundamental as Einstein’s E=mc2. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In doing so, he completely abandoned two principles which had been fundamental to Aristotle: that the element earth is a sphere, and that the element earth is at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The guiding principle was that a crash program to build the Super bomb required a Los Alamos of its own, and that place should be Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The principle of the scaffold was that loose bricks and mortar always were at the level of the top of the wall being built. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Nation of Islam is a religious organization based on Muslim principles, but it is also deeply rooted in Black nationalism. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
However, it occurs to me that perhaps what one takes objection to is, specifically, the outmoded understanding of what a 'distinguished household' is, rather than to the general principle being expressed. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
She wanted this poem to become our motto in class, and our principle in life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z
“No” “Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
For the first time, the guiding principles of a factory assembly line were applied to a commercial kitchen. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z
“You have a curious, designing mind, Mr. Rochester. I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
I would certainly be criticized for letting my family relationships interfere with my political principles. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
As is often the way in science, the principle had actually been anticipated three years previously by an amateur chemist in England named John Newlands. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
“It’s called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner’s luck.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Though obvious in principle, the consequences are sometimes resisted, as they were by the student of mine who maintained that human hair just didn’t grow in miles per hour. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
As a grown man, I understand now, understand how her Christian principles and trust in God kept her going through all her life’s battles, but as a boy, my faith was not that strong. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
The uncertainty principle also predicts that there will be similar virtual pairs of matter particles, such as electrons or quarks. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“What god? Where? Life-force, you mean? The principle of process? God as the history of Chance?” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
What is interesting, though, is how far this principle can be extended. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
At this bush meeting we agreed in principle on a five-year government of national unity in which all parties polling over 5 percent in a general election would be proportionally represented in the cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
They were fighting for principles that they had learned from Europeans and Americans—from people similar to their own slave masters. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
“There’s such a thing as principle” was all Fezzik would answer, and he opened the door that led to the fourth level. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
Unfazed, I presented my revelation that in the principles and theorems and axioms of plane geometry—these truths that stayed true across the universe—God had sent us a message. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
Another book could be written on this subject, but a few key principles stand out that can be briefly explored here. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Two grumpy old men from the Department of the Unexplained tell us absolutely nothing at all about what they do, on principle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z
So however questionable they may seem on intellectual principle, those great oxymorons—“common sense” and “received wisdom”—are profoundly important in persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
Anyone who favored a strong executive was vulnerable to the charge of being a quasi-monarchist, and therefore a traitor to the republican principles of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The Atlantic Charter of 1941, signed by Roosevelt and Churchill, reaffirmed faith in the dignity of each human being and propagated a host of democratic principles. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle, which can be paraphrased as “We see the universe the way it is because we exist.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Was I sabotaging my academic career over an abstract moral principle that mattered very little? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I believe you agree with that, as a principle.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z
Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
American principles, freedom, democracy, and justice for all, withstand the test of time. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
Once Sumerians had hit upon this phonetic principle, they began to use it for much more than just writing abstract nouns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
There were no formal conferences or rules or even basic principles of organization. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
He had no designs but wanted the plot gone on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Whenever I met any of my erstwhile comrades, they refused to acknowledge my existence in accordance with a party principle that made it imperative that all “traitors be isolated from the working class.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
The empirical method of thought, on which ail the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
But here was a principle through which the dimensions of life could be defined, captured. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
An important principle in composition is that the amount of verbiage one devotes to a point should not be too far out of line with how central it is to the argument. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
This principle of ever-more-exact measurement derives from Tycho Brahe; in tightening up the relationship between evidence and theory in physics, Galileo was extrapolating from the practices of the astronomers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The idea was this: when the star becomes small, the matter particles get very near each other, and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle, they must have very different velocities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Descartes, following in this tradition, used the word in S45 to refer to principles that ought, for theological reasons, to be acknowledged as false, but that are helpful if one pretends they might be true. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It was the face of a man of hardened integrity who could no more consciously violate the moral principles on which his virtue rested than he could transform himself into a despicable toad. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
The principles were Blindness, Loneliness, and Terror, the first principle necessarily and actively cultivated in order to deny the two others. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
The principle of parallax enables you to do this. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Scholars do not, on principle, believe in the supernatural. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
For two genes on the same chromosome, the same principle applied: there was no simple way to separate the forked-bristle gene from the coat-color gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Such problems turn real objects—heaps of grain, barrels of wine—into abstract shapes so that mathematical principles can be applied to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The same principle would also prolong the harsh realities of life for poor blacks like Ann Atwater, let alone for the equally poor, and increasingly threatened, whites like C. P. Ellis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
He said, “Honey, I’m not sure I can turn myself in to these people. There are principles at stake, basic human rights.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
His Federalist critics had always accused him of being a man of party rather than principle. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The second assumption is a little more troubling, especially since it seems to contradict the principle of relativity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
So avoiding the industrial food chain isn’t just a matter of principle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
All of this suggests that we may be able to extract a general principle about group organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Chandrasekhar showed that a collapsing star that has about 1.4 times the mass of our sun will have enough gravity to overwhelm the Pauli exclusion principle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Now let’s see how O’Connor uses this principle over an extended discussion. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Johnny Cakes explained that, on principle, he refused to pay the government for a liquor license, which was why he was bringing in the liquor secretly. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z
Oft do we act, and then inform the governing principles within us of our past action, and leave for them to write their reports and justifications as they will. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
These fairs often contained “Mendel booths,” where the principles of genetics and the laws of inheritance were demonstrated using puppets. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Whereas Hamilton’s central charge against Jefferson was that he was a utopian visionary with a misguided set of political principles, hiscore criticism of Burr was that he was wholly devoid of any principles at all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
The principle seemed obvious, but the actual experiment proved mysteriously daunting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
She was well above vanity now that no male principle threatened her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
He doubted that there is any principle of morality which can command universal assent, and he doubted that any of our sophisticated intellectual systems make sense of how the world is. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The second principle is that backshifting is not mandatory, which means that violating the sequence-of-tense rules and keeping the reported content in the present tense is not always an error. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
This was my view, and I saw nonviolence in the Gandhian model not as an inviolable principle but as a tactic to be used as the situation demanded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
But this would violate the principle, followed on all sides though never formulated, of cultural integrity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
The second principle—and this was so crucial it became known as the “cyclotron principle”—was that as the particles gain speed, their paths spiral wider. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“It’s a matter of principle,” he explained firmly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
Because we have some information about the particles’ position, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle implies that we must have some uncertainty about the particles’ velocity—their energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
For Partners in Health, there was a bigger principle involved. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
“He has all the right principles: dedication, hard work, perseverance, never giving up. He’s dogged; he’s persistent.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
They had concluded with a powerful statement of principle and self-worth. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
“He don’t need it himself, it’s the principle of the thing. He wants to know that people like him not for his money, you know, but for himself.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
With the Constitution now ratified and the new federal government safely in place, Franklin resumed his plea that slavery be declared incongruous with the revolutionary principles on which the nation was founded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I would not have written this book if I did not believe, contra Wilde, that many principles of style really can be taught. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
One can answer this on the basis of the weak anthropic principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Despite its independent origins and distinctive sign forms, Maya writing is organized on principles basically similar to those of Sumerian writing and other western Eurasian writing systems that Sumerian inspired. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
A quantum-mechanical law called the Pauli exclusion principle keeps matter from squishing itself into a point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
The Bund fully supported the Nazis' principles that were rooted in anti-Semitism, anti-communist sentiments, and the demand that the United States remain neutral in the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
This same principle held true on the physical front. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
It is what is called a classical theory; that is, it does not take account of the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, as it should for consistency with other theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
What is a principle, if it alter with circumstance? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
I would love to believe that the principles were Faith, Hope, and Charity, but this is clearly not so for most Christians, or for what we call the Christian world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
The barrier is clear in principle, although there are inevitable ambiguities in practice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The relationship between them underwent no major changes with the girl’s development, because it was based on the solid principle of mutual acceptance and the ability to laugh together at almost everything. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
One learns in prison that it is better to fight for general principles than to battle each individual case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
We shall see later that when one combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, it is possible for both space and time to be finite without any edges or boundaries. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Logograms for abstract words were often derived by the rebus principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
These same principles led astronomers to take a new interest in measuring distances in order to establish exactly where certain objects—new stars—were in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The greatest jolt came when Dr. Moroka tendered a humiliating plea in mitigation to Judge Rumpff and took the witness stand to renounce the very principles on which the ANC had been founded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The same principle applies in acting, he instructed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle tells us that we can't do even this simple act. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Crazy for standing on her principles: no buying on credit, no giving up her children, no eating of unclean meat. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
The key thing is that it is halfway to being a handbook: here is not an academic exercise, but a course of instruction in the basic principles behind the successful composition of speeches. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
Others said that we should approach this issue not from the point of view of principles but of tactics, and that we should employ the method demanded by the conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
What do I say when the waiter asks, "Which wine, sir"? The same principle works with exclamations inside exclamations, and with sentences that have both exclamations and questions. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
But this twist effectively marks the birth of a new philosophy of science: a scientific principle is now an hypothesis that has survived the test of experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
We advocated the creation of a multiparty negotiating conference to set up the interim government and set out the guiding principles for the functioning of a constituent assembly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I did not support or recognize the principles in the Population Registration Act, but my client needed representation, and he had been classified as something he was not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The principle led to the much later adoption of Avogadro’s number, a basic unit of measure in chemistry, which was named for Avogadro long after his death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Only Adler had previously demonstrated a clear grasp of the principles of acoustical design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Burr’s facile shift in his allegiance, the first in what would be several similarly agile switches during his career, captured Hamilton’s attention and produced his first recorded anti-Burr remarks, questioning Burr’s lack of political principle. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
“Someone needs to have less principles and more sense,” Dedd murmured, but without much fight in her voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I asked Mom, but she told me it was “the principle of the thing and we should accept the answers God gave us.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z
“You have principles and you don’t want to compromise them—but I’m begging you, Richard. There’s got to be something you can do....I mean...the baby...” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
In most European states, he went on to argue, it was probably necessary for the monarchy to remain hereditary for the foreseeable future, in order to permit a more gradual transition to full-blown republican principles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
From his courses at Northwestern and elsewhere, and from studying the legendary acting coaches like Constantin Stanislavski, he knows the principles of restraint and control. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
The sheer power of nuclear weapons themselves, any one of which could destroy an entire city, established a new principle for military conflict, dubbed "mutual assured destruction," or "MAD." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Though I do have to say it seems an odd talent for someone who just on general principles refuses to talk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Stanton called her “a grand, brave woman, radical alike in political, religious, and social principles.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
Despite Abigail’s reservations, Adams wanted Gerry on the peace delegation to demonstrate his bipartisan principles and also to assure that he would receive candid reports from a trusted friend. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But as a matter of principle, I object to your appearing like this and invading my private moments.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
Ben reads: "American principles, freedom, democracy, and justice for all, withstand the test of time. History changes. Relationships between Americans change. But America's ideals remain strong or adapt and get stronger." Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
Natural objects have, for an Aristotelian, their own internal formative principles, while artificial objects are made according to a design imposed from outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
What I wanted to find out were the fundamental principles for starting a revolution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“No acceleration—which means the ship works on a principle different from any known.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
And the same principle also explains the parallel urge to demonize them, since any discussion of their achievement is also an implicit conversation about the distinctive character of American imperialism, both foreign and domestic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Hell, weren't they their own death and their own destruction except as the principle lived in them and in us? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
So I spit in my hand, just a little drop, but Freak says it doesn't matter how much, a single molecule would work, because it's the principle of the thing. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z
The principle of mass production at last applied to biology. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
That issue, of course, was slavery, which was clearly incompatible with the principles of the American Revolution, no matter what version one championed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Those principles of crop development by artificial selection still serve as our most understandable model of the origin of species by natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Sandman’s “control” principle might also explain why most people are more scared of flying in an airplane than driving a car. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Now we can generalize the principle to sets of related concepts, that is, to themes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
But as long as we in the West place on color the value that we do, we make it impossible for the great unwashed to consolidate themselves according to any other principle. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
Her theory, demonstrated in practice, was based on the principle that a person who had all matters of conscience in perfect shape should be able to eat until overcome by fatigue. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
Here are fifteen general principles that are good for all kinds of writing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
It means that in principle, then, we are not ruled by mysterious, unpredictable forces, but that, on the contrary, we can in principle control everything by means of calculation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“Sixty people died building the Twin Towers, architectural marvels that would forever symbolically represent the strength of America and its principles of democracy and capitalism.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z
Preschoolers make a number of assumptions about words and their meaning as they acquire language, one of the most important of which is what the psychologist Ellen Markman calls the principle of mutual exclusivity. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
How could principle, an abstract thing floating in the air, wedge itself so solidly between them, and turn Blaine into somebody else? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
The rest of it was strange to her; she could see no principle behind the coils, the jars, the banks of insulators, the lattice of tubing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
Archimedes’ principle is a limit case, not a universal principle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“All right! All right, come along. Know the principles of a internal combustion engine?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
Must we turn to the anthropic principle for an explanation? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mrs. van Daan agreed with her, but felt it was wrong as a matter of principle to let youngsters read books written for adults. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z
“Never go home the same way as you went out,” she said, as though enunciating an important general principle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Few people would quarrel with the validity or utility of the weak anthropic principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
It functioned on an old-fashioned principle: you held it against the bones near your ear and it vibrated singing or talking to you. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
Why wouldn’t the same principle apply in the case of a devastating natural disaster, such as a plague? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
Because Bliss and the others didn't accept Lister's principles of infection, they provided flawed care. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z
Though I couldn’t make anything that advanced, I knew the principles involved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
This principle was as valid for Hawaiian chiefs as it is for American politicians today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The cyclotron principle was not exactly unknown to physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
As philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“I quite fail to see what is 'good’ about this afternoon, when you have rubbished the founding principle of the comprehensive school. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
But she was so doubtful and uneasy that he realized she couldn’t read or write, and had no idea of the principles of maps or plans of any sort. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
Using the no boundary condition, we find that the universe must in fact have started off with just the minimum possible non-uniformity allowed by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Boldly, he had gone back, reanalysed Archimedes’ principle, and revised it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
We shall see that although the uncertainty principle places limitations on the accuracy of all our predictions, it may at the same time remove the fundamental unpredictability that occurs at a space-time singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Penelope had no objection to dancing on principle, of course. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
In the 1968 election, race eclipsed class as the organizing principle of American politics, and by 1972, attitudes on racial issues rather than socioeconomic status were the primary determinant of voters’ political self-identification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
As for Chinese writing, first attested around 1300 B.C. but with possible earlier precursors, it too has unique local signs and some unique principles, and most scholars assume that it evolved independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The finest mathematicians were entirely satisfied with Archimedes’ principle, which seemed to them both coherent and complete. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to music learning, and called his method the mother-tongue approach. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
The main difficulty in finding a theory that unifies gravity with the other forces is that general relativity is a “classical” theory; that is, it does not incorporate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Yet according to Heisenberg’s principle, we cannot know how much energy there is in a volume of the vacuum at any given time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
“Our principle concern,” he explained, “was to keep information and atomic scientists from falling into the hands of the Russians.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
All their class held these principles: I supposed, then, they had reasons for holding them such as I could not fathom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
And second, almost no one knew about Avogadro’s appealingly simple principle for almost fifty years.** A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Their reasoning was complex in detail, but simple in principle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Then he gave up and mumbled the words I was supposed to say, that he didn’t understand fully, but that he knew polygamy was a principle from God. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Was that also what Rinehart was, a principle of hope for which they gladly paid? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s always surprising to me to see how often scientists thoughtlessly use synonyms in comparisons, because the cardinal principle of experimental design is the Rule of One Variable. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
At the Academy, this principle had never been mentioned. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
He ended by saying that he was startled and disturbed to learn that in spite of my own position in the Thembu royal house I did not support the principle of traditional leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
This principle is Newton’s very first law of motion and was considered old news even in Miss Penelope Lumley’s day. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
And it may be noted that Oresme had grasped the crucial principle, that a combination of circular movements could produce the appearance of rectilinear movement, apparently independently of any Arabic source. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
That conversation, as Hamilton now remembered it, “consisted of comments on the political principles and views of Col. Bur...without reference to any instance of past conduct, or to private character.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
“Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,” my companion says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
At ground level, the principles of triangulation are the same, except that the triangles don’t reach into space but rather are laid side to side on a map. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics implies that certain pairs of quantities, such as the position and velocity of a particle, cannot both be predicted with complete accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
One can take this either as evidence of a divine purpose in Creation and the choice of the laws of science or as support for the strong anthropic principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
It is a variation of the basic principle that if you know one angle and one side of an equilateral or right-angled triangle, then you can determine the other angles and sides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Growing organic food was a way to live their principles and not just talk about them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
They were people of principle; they did not ask favors of highly placed friends. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
The first principle of wrestling is to hang on to your opponent come what may, so I clung to Nick's breeches like a leech, though he kicked madly and pummeled my back with his fists. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z
These principles are rooted in an understanding that any movement to end mass incarceration must deal with mass incarceration as a racial caste system, not as a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
It was his, and the principle lives on in all its human and absurd diversity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
Equally, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle implies that particles behave in some respects like waves: they do not have a definite position but are “smeared out” with a certain probability distribution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
In principle, one expects the chain of causation to operate in both directions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Jim Kim, a Korean American, shared the same principles as Farmer, but he had a different view about how to achieve them. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z
He said the truth was that I didn’t have a soul and that nothing human, not one of the moral principles that govern men’s hearts, was within my reach. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z
A lot of Muslim women find it difficult to lead an active lifestyle while adhering to their religious principles around modesty, with most gyms being coed and workout wear being formfitting. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z
The early technical fussing was crucial; by early August, the three had achieved the transformation reaction in a flask and distilled the “transforming principle” into a highly concentrated form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
Eventually, with the concept of a tacit reserve, a principle from moral philosophy is introduced directly into epistemology, establishing a limit to knowledge claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
In this case, he wrote, in a draft text, the volume and weight of the water displaced correspond to the volume and weight of the ball, according to Archimedes’ principle—except they don’t. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Livingston had discovered electrical focusing by sheer ingenuity and serendipity; Lawrence recognized the underlying principle, which enabled him to incorporate it into subsequent designs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
It could not have been completely uniform, because that would violate the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It doesn’t matter—it’s the principle of the thing!” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z
The deeply flawed nature of colorblindness, as a governing principle, is evidenced by the fact that the public consensus supporting mass incarceration is officially colorblind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
“How can you not understand? It's the principle of it,” he said, and at that moment, he became a stranger to her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z
Just to be back with people who spoke the good old American language and understood the principle of a flush toilet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It does in principle, of course,” said Sir Charles. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
He wasn’t always terribly accurate–oxygen’s atomic weight is actually sixteen, not seven–but the principle was sound and formed the basis for all of modern chemistry and much of the rest of modern science. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
For you must understand, there was an important principle at issue. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z
The first principle was that charged particles moving in a perpendicular direction through a magnetic field follow a curved path. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
The first one, which is embarrassingly obvious, is that ESP runs afoul of the fundamental common- sense principle that the normal senses must somehow be involved for communication to take place. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
If the world had been created without the exclusion principle, quarks would not form separate, well-defined protons and neutrons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Prepared by the Presidents Advisory Committee on Science in March 1958 as a primer on spaceflight, the brochure laid out the scientific principles of travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere in terms a layperson could understand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z
Cockcroft’s judgment notwithstanding, the operational principles of the machine were rapidly becoming standardized. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
He and his followers believed that numbers were the ruling principle of the universe, and that musical harmonies were a basic expression of the mathematical laws of the universe. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
Its guiding principle, according to the constitution, is “military first.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
However, if Brunelleschi had mastered the geometry of perspective as early as 1413 it becomes a little difficult to explain why there are no surviving paintings which embody these principles before 1425. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle shows that there is no possible way to measure the pencil’s length—or an electron’s position—and its velocity with perfect accuracy at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
“Is the General going to offer a reward? I know it’s against his principles, but it might work.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z
Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The very idea of a book about ‘origins’ seems to them contrary to the principles he established in The Whig Interpretation of History. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
A very simple numerical principle that’s sometimes of use in accounting for the certainty of a particular kind of coincidence is illustrated by the mailman who has twenty-one letters to distribute among twenty mailboxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
I had not long been a reader of the “Liberator,” before I got a pretty correct idea of the principles, measures and spirit of the anti-slavery reform. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z
“Frankly, this is the first time I have ever heard of his accepting a pupil who is on such considerable financial aid. Being a democratic institution, Hampden College is not founded on such principles.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
But if Cook knows that, she’ll probably keep silent on principle. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
The same principles apply here that applied to the era of John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z
The core revolutionary principle according to this interpretive tradition is individual liberty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But the basic principle is still the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
His consistent willingness to pay the penalty for his principles earned my enduring respect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“All in favor of admitting first-term student Kvothe’s reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of the basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
“Is it something to do with the uncertainty principle?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
The lines Masaccio drew to plot out the composition on geometrical principles are still visible in the plaster. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
In the 1660s the Royal Society looked back to Bacon as the first to enunciate the principles of the new science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The other farmers sympathised in principle, but they did not at first give him much help. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
Pauli’s exclusion principle says that two similar particles cannot exist in the same state; that is, they cannot have both the same position and the same velocity, within the limits given by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“No. I believe it. I know that you will fail. There is something in the universe—I don’t know, some spirit, some principle—that you will never overcome.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we save lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
One example of the use of the weak anthropic principle is to “explain” why the big bang occurred about ten thousand million years ago—it takes about that long for intelligent beings to evolve. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“The basic principle of physical science is this: two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Do you understand that?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z
Still, on the principle of not making enemies, he let the boy guide him back to the cave and exchanged a question or two. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z
If astrophysics developed, the existence of stars could eventually be deduced from the principles of physics, but they would be theoretical constructs only. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Here it was again, Pierre Lemerre’s phrase, Jefferson’s phrase, the principle Clarkson was fighting for—indeed, he came to France to support the new government. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z
Now, it remains to be considered what should be the methods and principles of a prince in dealing with his subjects and allies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
Though we disdained the election on principle, we urged whites to vote yes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In principle, this provided a way to calculate the distance to the Sun by a variation on the theme of parallax, but these early observations were not accurate enough for the results to be definitive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
Not only was I shocked when it turned out she was to be our teacher, but there and then I instinctively knew that whatever the principles of proper teaching were, she did not possess them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
If these basic principles can be misinterpreted, it shouldn’t be surprising that more esoteric mathematics can be, too. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
And he wondered all the more intently if it might not be a good idea to transfer out of Milagro, forget about his high-falutin principles, and head for Vietnam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
“For example, it’s against my principles to do my daughter’s homework for her.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z
To have yielded then would have been an error of principle; to have yielded now would have been an error of judgment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
He’s going to give the medical profession a bad name by standing up for principle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
The two principles that governed my life at Mqhekezweni were chieftaincy and the Church. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Although the principle of the cyclotron is simple,” Cockcroft wrote after building a thirty-six-inch accelerator at the Cavendish, “the fact that it works is rather surprising.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
“Well, maybe we should’ve lied on that stupid census. Maybe it’s dumb to hold on to principles when your beliefs can get you in trouble,” I tell them. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
Then, sitting down to our task, I made it perfectly clear: “This is against my better principles.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Theory in the classroom included the principles of flight, aircraft and weapons mechanical instruction, and navigation skills. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
Wotton’s ‘Tacit Reserve’, which is the principle that all scientific reasoning is defeasible, is of fundamental importance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
They were the defenders of the faith of Christ, of the principle of authority, and were not prepared to permit the country to be broken down into autonomous entities. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
For the first time, she felt she had abandoned her principles, and sold out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
John and Mary Jones and their fellow black Chicagoans were beyond angry—they had much more at stake than their principles. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
Over a longer stretch of time, the Farewell Address achieved transcendental status, ranking alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address as a seminal statement of America's abiding principles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
But Shaker Heights had been founded, if not on Shaker principles, with the same idea of creating a utopia. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z
He was not himself an artist, but On Divine Proportion discusses the golden section, the principles of architecture and the design of typefaces. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“Englishmen do everything on principle,” George Bernard Shaw once noted—and the principle that Griffith lived by was utter modesty. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
It turns out that all but a few candidates for domestication have been eliminated by the Anna Karenina principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Some of the principles of style that apply within a sentence, such as building an orderly tree and placing given before new information, apply to extended passages as well. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Perhaps the histories of Native American wheels and writing exemplify the principles illustrated in a more extreme form by true island societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
Barack, in turn, shared his own story, tying it to the principles of community organizing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
And then there is the good old AT, still quietly ticking along after six decades, unassuming, splendid, faithful to its founding principles, sweetly unaware that the world has quite moved on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z
Fuller based his work on the principle he had learned at Case Western, the belief that if conditions were to improve for poor people, they themselves would have to implement the necessary changes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
The cyclotron principle was still waiting to be observed and experimentally confirmed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
In principle I heartily agreed with this, for I knew that it was impossible for working people to forge instruments of political power until they had achieved unity of action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was a sign of his humility and selflessness that he wanted to appoint me president, but it was not in keeping with the principles of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
We are fundamentally opposed to the principle and practice of compulsory segregation in our American society, whether of races or classes or creeds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mandela had gone to jail for his principles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The principle of segregation of races as to housing, schools, churches, and similar public activities is on the whole accepted by both races as being sound and sensible. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z
Affirmative action has been framed as a legitimate exception to the colorblindness principle—a principle now endorsed by the overwhelming majority of the American electorate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Because the weapon salve involved action over a distance, it defied a fundamental principle of Aristotelian physics, that action requires contact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
He had also set out to illustrate Archimedes’ principle in action, and as a consequence had discovered a further anomaly, that a weight of water could lift a weight greater than itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Mendeleyev used a slightly different approach, placing his elements into groups of seven, but employed fundamentally the same principle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Visiting Americans will find more warmth in Tehran than they will in New York, a city founded on the principle of Us versus Them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
“Our principle trouble,” Gold later said, “was to decide whether Klaus, for some reason, was unable to keep the meetings if he was still in New York, or whether he had actually left New York.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s called the principle of favorability, beginner’s luck. Because life wants you to achieve your Personal Legend,” the old king had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Its essence lies in the principle of symmetry: the same sorts of explanation must, according to this principle, be given for all types of knowledge claims, whether they are successful or not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
But now the principle of persuasive speech was at the heart of government. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
“It’s the same principle at play,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
Chandrasekhar realized, however, that there is a limit to the repulsion that the exclusion principle can provide. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Similarly, the changes required to transform wild plants into crops can in principle be brought about by alternative new mutations or alternative courses of selection to yield equivalent results. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
In principle, membership in these three groups is not hereditary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
As pressure in the star increases, the exclusion principle states that electrons inside must move faster and faster to avoid one another. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Castro promised a more equitable society based on communist principles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
Ernest, guilelessly playing host, sat Jack Neylan in front of a blackboard and attempted to explain the cyclotron principle to him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Possibly she wants to be a painter, and thinks I have compromised my principles, knuckled under to success. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z
When Archimedes cried ‘Eureka!’ and ran naked through the streets of Syracuse we say that he had discovered what we call Archimedes’ principle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The synchrotron principle has ever since been attributed to McMillan and Veksler, who discovered it nearly simultaneously but certainly independently, working half a world apart. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Yet it seems that the uncertainty principle is a fundamental feature of the universe we live in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Mr. Kvothe here has assured me as to his complete grasp of the principles of sympathy. In doing so, he has offered to give today’s lecture.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
All three of Kepler’s laws of planetary motion can be derived from Newtonian principles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
He had no subjects of conversation except the principles of Ingsoc, and no aim in life except the defeat of the Eurasian enemy and the hunting-down of spies, saboteurs, thought-criminals, and traitors generally. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
The trouble is, as explained in Chapter 7, that the uncertainty principle means that even “empty” space is filled with pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
A principle, on the other hand, is a rule or standard. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Third, and finally, Adams derived deep personal satisfaction from singular acts of principle that defied the agendas of both political parties. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
More than theology or philosophy, Darwin was drawn to natural history—the study of the natural world using systematic scientific principles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
There is a little uncertainty about the use of the word uncertainty in regard to Heisenberg’s principle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
It also provided a key building block in one of the most crucial, emerging principles of the science of attention: There is a tension going on inside the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
We looked at a version of this principle when we saw that to help the reader keep track of a single entity across multiple mentions, a writer should not flip-flop between unnecessary synonyms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
He would thus have been familiar with the basic principle that objects appear smaller as they recede into the distance, a principle analysed by Euclid, and familiar in the Middle Ages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Even within the United States, the fate of those principles was still problematic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgment, not till he’s shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
For the next 15 minutes, Mr. Stoker lectures us on being honest and working hard and having principles. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z
Will was placed in charge of the fire, and Iorek spent several minutes directing him and making sure he understood the principles he was to use. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
Biology, his main subject, seemed to be a wild, overgrown garden of a discipline, lacking any systematic organizing principles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
A second objection to the strong anthropic principle is that it runs against the tide of the whole history of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
First he had set down a few principles and done a little chiding. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
Was some tested principle given a new and strange refinement because of fresh, remarkable evidence? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
According to the standard principles of Renaissance education, there were fundamentally two types of argument: arguments from reason, and arguments from authority. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
What these tests tell employers about potential employees is hard to imagine, since the “right” answers should be obvious to anyone who has ever encountered the principle of hierarchy and subordination. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wouldn’t they care more for their pocketbooks than their principles? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
I know that I'm eating meat bits that escape this tragically simple procedure, but the principle of my decision is intact, even if the reality is compromised. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z
But simultaneously, true to the principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
It was clear that the ban on the organization had effectively expired, a vindication of our long struggle and our resolute adherence to principle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Once again, I thought it necessary to draw a distinction between principle and tactics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The uncertainty principle had profound implications for the way in which we view the world. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
This principle can be extended to understanding much else about life besides marriage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
In a sense, Washington was defending his presidency as an essential exception to full-blooded republican principles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Dante, unlike the philosophers, took his geography seriously, but no philosopher could have found his abandonment of the fundamental principle that the universe was made out of spheres entirely satisfactory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It was hardly past noon but he was issued a beer on principle, and within minutes the man was telling his story. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z
Keegan’s problem is that he flouts another principle of coherence in writing, the last one we will visit in this chapter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Put the principles together, and they indicate that an electrical field at a constant frequency can impart repeated kicks to a stream of spiraling protons without being constantly retuned. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
“In its application the familiarity it causes with suffering destroys in the breast of the officer all sympathetic feeling”: The words of the Auburn physician seem to me to express a timeless principle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Indeed, he thought that water was a common principle underlying all of matter, just as today we might say the same of electrons, protons and neutrons, or of quarks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Nazis wanted to ensure that the teachers were politically reliable and supported the National Socialist Party and its principles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Dr. Gazzaley says the meaning of this principle is actually open to interpretation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z
“Unless I’m wrong, which you know I’m not, that concept is known as Locard’s exchange principle. I learned that by watching every single one of those CSI shows.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
Her loyalty, she said, had been to Harold Washington’s principles more than to the man himself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The principle of double entry is simple: every transaction is entered twice, as a credit and as a debit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The only way to clock the speed of a galaxy is by using the Doppler effect—the same principle used in state troopers’ radar guns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
“I can not shoulder the responsibility of electing officers who publicly repudiate the principles of the society,” Foster said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
This conception of a compact and electrically efficient accelerator synthesized several established principles into a novel whole. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Another source of income for mathematicians in Galileo’s day was teaching the geometrical principles of perspective representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The membership voted against supporting the principle of educated suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z
But in the end I decided that killing animals is not wrong in principle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z
One is long life expectancy, which in principle should give prospective inventors the years necessary to accumulate technical knowledge, as well as the patience and security to embark on long development programs yielding delayed rewards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
This principle holds for more than just jobs, of course. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Never mind that this principle didn't hold true in her own family. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z
Now Stalin and the Communist Party nailed together a haphazard structure for a country that, in principle at least, treated men and women with equal rights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
The principle of twisting and winding hadn’t caught on in their world, so all the cords and ropes were braided; but they were strong and flexible, and Mary soon found exactly the sort she wanted. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z
As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
But in 1790 the Supreme Court was a woefully weak third branch of the federal government and the principle of judicial review had yet to be established. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
If the same principle applied to animals and inheritance, then what force could possibly conserve any distinguishing feature of any variant organism? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
He became the world’s foremost authority on thermodynamics and the first to elucidate the principles of the convection of fluids and the circulation of ocean currents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
A successful unified theory must, therefore, necessarily incorporate this principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
“It’s the principle of the thing,” Dad replied. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z
The matter particles obey what is called Pauli’s exclusion principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
There are two others, and each is a monumental principle of composition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
Thus all the complicated structures that we see in the universe might be explained by the no boundary condition for the universe together with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
The ancients did refer to the ‘laws’ of nature when they wanted to say that nature is regular and predictable, but they never identified any particular scientific principle as a law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
But this state of affairs is not necessarily permanent, nor is it a matter of principle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
He said that people had rearranged God’s order by segregating the races and that the Civil Rights movement was attempting to restore a rightful order to the universe based on biblical principles. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z
And Thomas Jefferson’s lyrical rendering of the reasons for the entire revolutionary enterprise emphasized the self-evident character of the principles at stake. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
Yet no such object could exist: Brahe knew his way around the heavens, and it was a fundamental principle of Aristotelian philosophy that there could be no change in them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Passing through Alexandria on his way to Mount Vernon, he stopped to deliver a speech in which he reiterated his allegiance to the principles articulated in the Farewell Address. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
He gave up his college fund without a second thought, to stand up for his principles. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z
I was fairly sure that it wasn’t the money per se, but the principle of it; I was also fairly sure that whatever tension existed, Bunny was oblivious of it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
Mary’s is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother’s, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Naturally, he countered with Capo Ferro which surprised the man in black, but he defended well, quickly shifting out of Agrippa and taking the attack himself, using the principles of Thibault. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z
The year before the society had backed a costly flop called The History of Fishes, and they now suspected that the market for a book on mathematical principles would be less than clamorous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z
Even Tom Watson, who had been among the most forceful advocates for an interracial alliance of farmers, concluded that Populist principles could never be fully embraced by the South until blacks were eliminated from politics. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
With that complete understanding of the principle of motor locomotion, I drove down the mountainside toward Calexico, some fifty miles away. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Even if they returned the money, it’s the principle of the thing.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z
In principle any theory could be saved by redefining terms in this way; but the enterprise would be pointless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
As a leader, I have always followed the principles I first saw demonstrated by the regent at the Great Place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
He would spend the nights walking around the room thinking aloud, searching for a way to apply the principles of the pendulum to oxcarts, to harrows, to everything that was useful when put into motion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
Outwardly, it seemed like a perfect existence for an intellectual, civic-minded guy in his thirties who’d flatly turned down any number of more lucrative and prestigious options in favor of his principles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
“It’s like math. We have to learn the principles first. I’m up to it. Are you?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z
Yet the principles behind all these devices, like Aristarchus’s heliocentrism, died on the vine. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z
Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way—even by death—and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z
The answer lies in the third of the principles of epidemic transmission, the Power of Context. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
A white dwarf is supported by the exclusion principle repulsion between the electrons in its matter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
In his acceptance remarks, the honoree alluded to his treasured principle of interdisciplinary collaboration. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z
Of all the stumbling blocks inherent in learning this language, the greatest for me is the principle that each noun has a corresponding sex that affects both its articles and its adjectives. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z
In principle, a scientist should be able to change the “composition of individuals,” and of nations, and leave a permanent mark on human identity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
But there is a third, less obvious, factor here, which has to do with the last of the principles of epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
This approach led Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger, and Paul Dirac in the 1920s to reformulate mechanics into a new theory called quantum mechanics, based on the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
“That’s Father for you, it’s the money that counts. There are principles involved, Tim. Either you live up to your principles or you don’t and maybe you have to take a chance on getting killed.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
At first the men wanted to have someone play out the role of Jesus and raise up from the dead, but Father opposed that on principle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Monod and Jacob, working with Arthur Pardee, a microbial geneticist from America, discovered three cardinal principles that governed the regulation of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
To which conditions was Francis Galton referring, when he spoke of those other species as “destined to perpetual wildness”? The answer follows from the Anna Karenina principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
The principle was not so important that the strategy should be used even when it was self-defeating, as Gandhi himself believed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Enveloped in an aura of righteousness and unyielding principles, Miss Brent sat in her crowded third-class carriage and triumphed over its discomfort and its heat. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z
“Outlaws used to have principles. You could claim your ship, you could claim your spoils. But the ocean was for all of us.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z
Swift’s guiding principle for success was simple and constant: eliminate waste to increase profits. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
The process was excruciatingly dull—but small thoughts, Mendel knew, often bloomed into large principles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
There ought to be some principle that picks out one initial state, and hence one model, to represent our universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Starkey referred to the adage ‘Hear the other side’, a fundamental principle of natural justice, as ‘hateful’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
And by now he was an expert tramp, using humility as a working principle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z
To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers in accord with Root’s grillage principle, then used steam-powered derricks to raise the tall posts of iron and steel that formed each building’s frame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z
In principle, the single-celled embryo does possess all the genetic information to specify a full organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z
The latter notion—statistical testing of hypotheses—is simple in principle. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
He accepted his humanity just as he accepted the principle. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
The real hero is Abraham Lincoln and the principles for which he lived—and died: freedom and equal rights for all Americans. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
And then go ahead and vote our principles—conservative.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The main principle is that the interior of the space suit is a cocoon housing the normal world, which you bring with you into the hot area. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The MAD principle argued that a first strike against the enemy would almost certainly fail to destroy its entire nuclear arsenal and would lead to an immediate cycle of retaliation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z
However, as has been described in earlier chapters, the classical laws were superseded by quantum laws based on the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
He was not a gung-ho cop; he wasn’t quick to make an arrest, or to pull a gun, or to nail people just on general principles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
The presumption in those practice sessions was that he'd be rescuing a crewmate whose tether had broken, but the principle was the same. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It was that the entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z
But even if he had been a revolutionary who knew what the queue really meant and hated the thought of wearing it, there was still the principle of the matter. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
“In principle,” he said, “I am not against negotiations. But I would have wished that the government initiated talks with us rather than us initiating talks with them.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
Underlying experimentation, therefore, there must be a theory of the regularity and economy of nature; the natural world has to be the sort of world that could, in principle, be interpreted through experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Each side sincerely saw the other as traitors to the core principles of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
You have to apply the principles of geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
According to the principles of the code duello, Burr was perfectly justified in taking deadly aim at Hamilton and firing to kill. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
Over and over we hear in voiceover or see in graphic display the “three principles,” which are maddeningly, even defiantly, nonparallel: “respect for the individual, exceeding customers’ expectations, strive for excellence.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
Addison himself claimed to be neutral on the subject: he believed in witchcraft in principle, but not in the validity of any particular accusation of witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“But Mr. Benedict, if you explained how it worked—scientifically, I mean—how could they not believe you? Surely you can demonstrate the principles involved!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
But as the weeks rolled on, he experienced firsthand the cardinal principle of American politics in the 1790s: whoever went face-to-face against Washington was destined to lose. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
I’d like to emphasize that this idea that time and space should be finite “without boundary” is just a proposal: it cannot be deduced from some other principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
We should therefore use the principle of economy and cut them out of the theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Did he mean say "yes" because he knew that the principle was greater than the men, greater than the numbers and the vicious power and all the methods used to corrupt its name? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z
Since they usually ignore the tuning, melodic forms, and other aesthetic principles of the traditions that they are borrowed from, such uses of "exotic" scales should not be considered accurate representations of those traditions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
On principle, I do not wait in lines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z
He thought and worried and thought; and at last he broke down and did something entirely against his principles—he called up a girl. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
Somewhat surprisingly, the same principles apply to inanimate matter, as we shall see. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
It’s better to understand a few principles that govern time, tense, and discourse than to try to memorize a list of regulations that are tailored to the sequence-of-tense phenomenon itself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z
The tank worked on the same principle as a sliding cash drawer in a teller’s window. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
The force of nothing is caused by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z
Given the disdain I’d expressed for Everest over the years, one might reasonably assume that I declined to go on principle. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
So we may, if we wish, use the weak anthropic principle to explain why the universe looks the way it does now. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Kurchatov also learned that it might be possible to build bombs using the principle of implosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
Jefferson and Madison claimed to share their apprehensions and their political principles, but not their secessionist impulses. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
This means that when the star got sufficiently dense, the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Board of Education decision by enrolling at an all-white high school in Arkansas, enduring many months of cruelty and abuse in the name of a higher principle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
The still operates on the principle of distillation: sea water lying beneath the sealed cone on the black canvas is heated by the sun and evaporates, gathering on the inside surface of the cone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
But since the men arrested at Rivonia were Ninety-Day detainees, and therefore not technically charged with a crime, this judicial principle went by the wayside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In the Middle Ages the heavens had been compared to clockwork; now the same principle of regularity was, it was claimed, to be discovered in the sublunary world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“Meanwhile he’s sitting in jail, talking about fighting for his principles. He wants to be a martyr, Noah, that’s fine—but not at the expense of this family. I won’t stand for it!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z
In an early unpublished text from the 1590s he sought to demonstrate that Archimedes’ principle, that a body floats when it displaces its own weight in water, is necessarily true. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
“We are nonmagical beings. But I have learned a few practical principles that help me manage things. Nothing you would find very remarkable.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
“You have to understand the principles involved this time. No shortcuts or cheats!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
An unflagging loyalty to his profession and its principles had made Arthur, over the years, increasingly deliberate in his speech and actions, and increasingly exacting regarding the truth in even his most casual reportage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z
This is the principle for which our ancestors fought in the valleys of Pennsylvania. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z
Two final applications of the multiplication principle—one slightly depressing, the other somewhat cheering. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
The principle pleasure of these audiences, says Dr. Trefusis, lies in referring to royalty without either revealing or denying the closeness of his connection, viz. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
“They told me all I had to do was prove I mastered the basic principles of sympathy.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
In principle, such a journey, mounting the decimal points ever closer to the speed of light, would even permit us to circumnavigate the known universe in some fifty-six years ship time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
They are exactly the same principles as are involved in perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
This problem in combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle had been suspected for some time, but was finally confirmed by detailed calculations in 1972. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Thus we are told ‘the one and only error of general principle which the historian can commit...is to read history not forwards, as it happened, but backwards.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
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