basic principles
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"The original discovery of the Veneziano spectrum, and John Schwarz's work, took a similar approach. They didn't start with string theory models but rather the solutions came out of basic principles."
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Per the World Health Organization, a healthy diet is made up of four basic principles: adequacy, balance, moderation and diversity.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
“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
“His actions in this case ... show an abandonment of some of the most basic principles of fairness.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025
He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to music learning, and called his method the mother-tongue approach.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
