Fundamentals Quotes - Page 39

• It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.

  Richard Matheson

  Reality, Details, Elements

  Richard Matheson (1999). “The Path: A New Look At Reality”, p.14, Macmillan

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• I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.

  David Miscavige

  Moving, July, Church

  "A Letter from David Miscavige" by Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, St Petersburg Times, June 23, 2009.

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• From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.

  Soko Morinaga

  Buddhism, People, Firsts

  "Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity". Book by Soko Morinaga, p. 29, June 15, 2002.

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• Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and seperate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?

  Julian Schwinger

  Theoretical Physics, Understanding, Purpose

  Julian Schwinger (2013). “Quantum Mechanics: Symbolism of Atomic Measurements”, p.25, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Faith is not something that you can cultivate. If it happens to you, it happens, if it doesn't happen to you it doesn't happen, that's all. Does it mean to say - "I have to just sit and wait and someday it will fall upon me?" No, it is just that if you understand the fundamentals of living here, in this existence, you will see, for anything to happen, you must create the right kind of situation.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Fall, Mean, Waiting

  The Asian Age, February 22, 2009.

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• In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Drama, Hands

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Philosophical, House, Problem

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”

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• Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

  Gerard 't Hooft

  Issues, Perfect, Would Be

  "Does Some Deeper Level of Physics Underlie Quantum Mechanics? An Interview with Nobelist Gerard 't Hooft". Interview with George Musser, blogs.scientificamerican.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

  Leon Botstein

  Character, Like Love, Resilience

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• Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

  Charles Walters

  Drama, Dancing, Important

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• Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

  Mary Leakey

  Data, Theory, Comes And Goes

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• Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

  Roger Ebert

  Needs, Married, Reason

  "All the lonely people" by Roger Ebert, November 10, 2010.

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• To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Successful, Men, Wife

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• Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

  John D. Rockefeller

  Country, Believe, Son

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• The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Sound, Commodity

  In a press conference, October 30, 1929.

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• Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Children, Book

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• Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

  Zane Grey

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press

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• A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

  Linda Colley

  War, Expansion, Torn Apart

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press

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• More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.

  David Cannadine

  Queens, Should Have, Sovereign

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• It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Wisdom, Commitment, Successful

  "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". Book by Thomas Kuhn, 1962.

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• It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Rights, Confusion

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.148, TAN Books

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• As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

  Christy Turlington

  Spiritual, Pain, Practice

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• Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.

  Pope Pius XI

  Foundation, Use, Demand

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• There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Thinking, Animal

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