Human beings create and originate values and ways of looking at things through the processes of their minds, but they do not, by their minds, create either things or principles.

By their nature, all principles have universal application. If we are really dealing with a principle, it will work and apply equally well in all parts of the world under the prescribed conditions, to all persons irrespective of nationality, creed, or color.

Further, a principle will apply continuously through time. Often, people believe that they have discovered a principle, only to find that it will not apply universally, or over time.

In this case, the idea isn't really a principle. It may not be entirely useless, and it may further lead one to discover a principle, but to be accurate, it cannot be considered a principle if its application cannot be made universally over time.

For example, did Isaac Newton "create" gravity? Of course not. He "discovered" and articulated, the principle or "law" of gravity.

Was Newton's articulation of the "principle" of gravity complete and accurate? Only time and ceaseless experimentation, which will serve to demonstrate (or to dis-prove) the universal application of the principle of gravity as described by Newton, will tell.

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