Word: credo
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After he had run away from his apprenticeship in Boston and begun publishing his own paper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, he expressed this credo in a famous editorial, "Apology for Printers," which remains one of the best defenses of a free press. The opinions people have, Franklin wrote, are "almost as various as their faces." The job of printers is to allow people to express these differing opinions. "There would be very little printed," he noted, if publishers produced only things that offended nobody. At stake was the virtue of free expression, and Franklin summed up the Enlightenment position: "Printers...
...says he was no exception to the complacency that typified the era—he spent his undergraduate years diligently studying and remained at the edges of any political debate. At 18, Mansfield had not yet found the political ideology that would fuel both his academic career and personal credo for the next 50 years...
Biologists continue to recite the worn credo, “the central, unifying principle of biology is the theory of evolution.” But where would physics be if Einstein had been forced to chant, “the central, unifying principle of physics is Newtonian theory,” until he could not see beyond its limitations...
...Northampton to study shoemaking from traditional craftsmen. (The wobble went away.) Today, Blahnik still does every step of the process himself?he sketches the designs, carves the lasts, chooses the materials and supervises the craftsmen in the factories. "What is fashion?" Blahnik asks. "It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail...
...divided into five different movements: the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. The first two are generally known for following a more classical style of church music, whereas the last three have more dramatic elements not found in most traditional religious music...