Mr. Adair said: "If Albert Einstein were alive and he were interested in baseball, two very dubious propositions, he could not, starting from first principles, calculate how a baseball curves.
Starting from first principles, we need radical reform of the way we operate from the management of house business, to the composition of committees, from the level of scrutiny to the opportunities for backbench members to take part in key debates.
And this assessment, so Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said last week, was starting from "first principles".Is it conceivable that Mr Obama will disregard General McChrystal and decide to scale down rather than beef up a war that he himself has declared vital to America's safety?
We should also refrain from embarking on a fundamental epistemological or metaphysical inquiry starting from first principles.
Starting from physical principles, Zimmerman et al. (1993) derived this interporosity flow equation for liquid using a spherical matrix shape.
Starting from these principles a common system is then developed which applies to theology, cosmology, ethics, and politics.
Starting from the principles of thermodynamics, a 3D finite element formulation is derived for a fully coupled simultaneous solution of the thermal field and the deformation field.
It is part of a twin set of papers that, starting from first principles, ask what an optimal global carbon market would look like by around 2030.
This study presents the derivation of the appropriate pseudo-steady-state interporosity flow equation for single-phase gas starting from physical principles.
It is part of a twin set of papers that ask, starting from first principles, what an optimal global carbon market would look like by around 2030.
They propose to rethink and reinvent communications systems starting from the principles and only constrained by the law of physics [15, 58].
