Fundamentals Quotes - Page 28

• What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

  Brad Carson

  Country, Issues, Trying

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• There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

  Eric Alterman

  Lying, Cutting, Offering

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• In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

  Helen Clark

  Government, Differences, Australia

  "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.

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• Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

  Ray Comfort

  Ideas, Evolution, Biology

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• If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

  Robert Cailliau

  Average, Abuse, Citizens

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• Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Opposites, Ends

  "How to Parent an Introverted Child: An Interview With Susan Cain". Interview with Sil Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  Artur Davis

  Country, Artist, People

  "Artur Davis: This isn't the Democratic Party I used to know". Interview With Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

  Charles Edison

  Office, Foundation, Purpose

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• We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

  Vito Fossella

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Opposites, Self

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Technology, Friendly

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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Teaching, Rome

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

  John Charles Polanyi

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

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• Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).

  Karl Evang

  Views, Environmental Factors, Firsts

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.

  Ron Smothermon

  Love Is, Definitions, Universe

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• I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

  David Chalmers

  Lying, Years, Ideas

  "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchel, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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• In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

  Claudio Hummes

  Rights, Personality, Support

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• Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.

  Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria

  Christian, Integrating, Integration

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• (1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.

  Ilya Prigogine

  Real, Play, World

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• Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Self, Should Have

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• This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people.... I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Depressing, Thinking, Availability

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• One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

  David E. Kelley

  Ideas, People, Everyday

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• Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

  Damon Lindelof

  Spiritual, Wipe, Belief

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