first principles
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One analyst who predicted it from first principles was Joachim Klement, a managing director at U.K. investment bank Panmure Liberum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Ilyse Hogue: I go back to first principles on a lot of the projects that I work on.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
It is rooted in the first principles thinking popular with Musk, McNeill told me for an episode of the “Bold Names” podcast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
He will give a speech later about his first principles - his values and his patriotism.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
Our first principles told us that Pauling could not be the greatest of all chemists without realizing that DNA was the most golden of all molecules.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
