basic principles
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“I think folks are catching on that it is time to go back to diversification and basic principles of investing,” he says.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
While this result surprises some physicists, others see it as a natural outcome of one of the most basic principles of quantum mechanics known as unitarity.
From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026
"If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them."
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025
From all of this, there’s a basic lesson to be learned: once you violate both fair treatment of prisoners and the basic principles of law, finding an unchallenged resolution to such cases is essentially inconceivable.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025
The basic principles involved had been described by Euclid and were well understood in the Middle Ages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
