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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
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"This 'Akram science' does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it's reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle."

"Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking."

"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."

"In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right."

"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."

"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
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