One axiom of modern warfare is that airpower cannot conquer, control or hold ground. |
Newton's axiom on slicing the pie to satisfy musical harmonies is reminiscent of Kepler's Pythagorean speculations. |
It has long been an axiom that history is re-written by each generation in terms that make sense to it. |
Like all absolutist dogmas, this combination of axiom and corollaries appeals in its simplicity and directness. |
I start from the simple axiom that I own myself, that my life belongs to me and not to someone else. |
In set theory he made important contributions to the axiom of choice and to the continuum hypothesis. |