Science
- Principal Investigator, a lead scientist or engineer for a project
- Principal value, a value along a chosen branch of a multivalued function
- Principal branch, a special selected branch of a multivalued function
- Principal ideal, an ideal with a single generator, and the related concept of principal ideal domains
- Cauchy principal value, a way of assigning a finite value to improper integrals that seem to diverge
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“One science only will one genius fit;
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)