Fundamentals Quotes - Page 25

• Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited

  PJ Ladd

  Block, Building, Masters

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• Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  William Whewell

  Independent, Exercise, Ideas

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• One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.

  Warren Weaver

  Average, Probability Theory, Understanding

  Warren Weaver (2012). “Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.

  Tom Shadyac

  Cancer, Years, Law

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• Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information system to alert us to these grand events; they will hit us in the face. Another good excuse for ignoring the literature is that, since everyone has strong beliefs about fundamentals but can't support those beliefs rationally or consistently convince non-believers, computer science is actually a religion.

  Philip Greenspun

  Strong, Book, Support

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• If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings

  Dalai Lama

  Diversity, Understanding, Healthy

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• It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

  Winston Churchill

  Liberty, Socialism, Form

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

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• Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However, if you catch on early, before others believe, you might have valuable “surprise-a-mentals”.

  Ed Seykota

  Believe, Useless, Might

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• A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

  George Gilder

  Zero, Yield, Order

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• Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Fads, Way

  Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.288, John Wiley & Sons

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• If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.

  Etienne Gilson

  Adventure, Analysis, Failing

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• The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

  Michael R. Rose

  Upheaval, Landscape, Firsts

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• It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not

  Saul Perlmutter

  Jobs, Fate, Chance

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• From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it

  Saul Perlmutter

  Views, Understanding, Would Be

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• Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

  Saul Perlmutter

  Able, Astronomers, Ought

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• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental structural plans is heavily burdened with hypothesis. This should appear as an epigraph to every book on evolution. The lack of direct evidence leads to the formulation of pure conjecture as to the genesis of the phyla; we do not even have a basis to determine the extent to which these opinions are correct.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Book, Creative, Fossils

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• A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being.

  James W. Sire

  Heart, Commitment, Reality

  James W. Sire (2015). “Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept”, p.141, InterVarsity Press

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• Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Attitude, Essence, Style

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• Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.

  Peter Cundill

  Smart, Stupid, People

  "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Mean

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.152, Macmillan

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

  Ali Vincent

  Changing Your Life, About Yourself

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.3, Rodale

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• In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Deity... female deities were gradually overshadowed by or incorporated into the attributes of a number of male gods, then eclipsed by the ascendance of the single male deity that dominates the Judeo-Christian tradition.

  Judy Chicago

  Christian, Numbers, Principles

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• The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Giving, Behaviour, Should

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• The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else. It is not the end result.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Passion, Issues

  "On Being a Photographer: A Practical Guide". Book by by David Hurn and Magnum, 1997.

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