His ancestors had a simple axiom: When outnumbered, attack.

Thus by his failure to find any contradictions he proves that the fifth postulate is irreducible to simpler axioms.

At the heart of Kulischer's work is a simple axiom: individual short-distance movements in their combined action create great population shifts.

Lambert began with two simple axioms: light travels in a straight line in a uniform medium and rays that cross do not interact.

This simple genetic axiom is complicated only by the fact that, for a brief time tonight, Michael Malone will be rooting against him.

I realized I had long clung to a simple axiom: say what comes into your head, for this is called honesty.

The hope of Knicks executives is that Brown's simple axioms will take root quickly and help lift the franchise out of a four-year malaise.

If you're looking to explain all human behavior on the basis of a few simple axioms, it's a warning.

Even with what he now knew about the Taurus Reach, he still held on to that simple axiom.

A simpler axiom took its place: since war is hell, any means necessary may be used to end, in Churchill's words, "the vast indefinite butchery."