Sentence examples for elementary principles in from inspiring English sources

Epicurus operated with a highly limited number of elementary principles in nature — he did not know the concept of force, for example, or the associated ideas of attraction and repulsion among atoms, not to mention more arcane properties — and for all his efforts to account for all the physical features of the world on the basis of this theory, paradoxes remained.

Gibbs's derivation of the phenomenological laws of thermodynamics from the statistical properties of systems with many particles was presented in his highly-influential textbook Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published in 1902, a year before his death.

"The FBI trained me in the tenets of Islam, in the elementary principles of Arabic, and just to blend into the community and to slowly integrate myself as a Muslim male," he said.

The result was that the appellants were convicted following a trial in which elementary principles which underpin the fairness of our trial procedures were ignored.

Judges ruled that the activists had been convicted "following a trial in which elementary principles which underpin the fairness of our trial processes were ignored".

According to Henri Poincaré, writing in 1904, even though Maxwell and Boltzmann had previously explained the irreversibility of macroscopic physical processes in probabilistic terms, "the one who has seen it most clearly, in a book too little read because it is a little difficult to read, is Gibbs, in his Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics".

In jurisprudence Cujas specialized in Justinian; his Paratitla, or summaries of Justinian's Digest and Codex, expresses in short, clear axioms the elementary principles of Roman law.

This study shows how elementary principles of mammalian behavioral aging can be modeled in insects.

William Strunk and E. B. White, in their famous book The Elements of Style, suggest, in rule 16 (one of the "Elementary Principles of Composition") that a writer ought to always "use definite, specific, concrete, language".

"In the name of such a rule, the most elementary principles of caution don't count for much".

Without naming China, a North Korean statement accused it of "abandoning without hesitation even elementary principles".