Malcolm Gladwell

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

Canadian Author

Gord Downie

As we move towards resolution and understanding and greater serenity in all aspects of our life, love's pretty elemental and that's nice to know. I think rock 'n' roll is the same. I don't pretend to understand it; it feels confusing and frightening and wonderful.

Canadian Musician

Marco Rubio

You cannot do anything without God. It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

American Politician

Jean Giraudoux

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

French Dramatist

Albert Einstein

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

German Physicist

Christopher Nolan

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

British Director

Christian Camargo

No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

American Actor

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Karl Kraus

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Austrian Writer

Antony Gormley

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

British Artist

Use 'elemental' when explaining natural phenomena with a forceful or mystical quality.

Nature's Forces

'Elemental' suggests something powerful and usually beyond human control, like the weather.

Beyond Control

'Elemental' often hints at the fundamental, raw qualities of nature itself.

Primal Quality

Describe something as 'elemental' to stress its utmost importance in a broader context.

Core Importance

Use 'elemental' to highlight the necessity or inborn nature of a concept or feature.

Emphasize Necessity

'Elemental' can refer to the basic components that form a complex structure or idea.

Underlying Components

In chemistry contexts, 'elemental' means a pure substance made of one type of atom.

Chemistry Specific

Use 'elemental' to talk about substances in their most natural, uncombined state.

Pure Substance

In scientific texts, 'elemental' suggests the idea of simplicity or a starting point for analysis.

Simplicity in Science

 And we got a full time series across days, weeks, months, years, across the island, to figure out when microbes colonized these rocks, what that means in terms of a longer term succession of microbial community inside these rocks, and how that influences elemental cycles on our planet.

Searching For Life in...

 and progressing to riskier and harder tasks as they guide and decide she’s ready. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by this kind of learning. It feels elemental, part of what makes us human. It has different apprenticeship, coaching, mentorship, on the job training.

How do we learn to work...

 I would argue that it would be the story of a single number, maybe the most elemental measure of progress that we have. Life expectancy at birth. The length of time that the average person can expect to live in a given place at a given time.

Steven Johnson: How...

 You can help catch the counterfeits. All you need are some simple tools and a bit of chemistry. First up, the anti-counterfeit detection pen. The pen looks like a highlighter and contains a solution of potassium iodide and elemental iodine.

How to spot a...

 the creation of the heaviest elements in a supernova takes place in only seconds. But what becomes of the gold after the explosion? The expanding supernova shockwave propels its elemental debris through the interstellar medium,

Where does gold come...

 and its elemental composition– were determined by an uncountably large series of random collisions. Change the dust cloud just a bit, and perhaps the conditions wouldn’t have been right for the formation of life on our planet.

The dust bunnies that...

 and in general, it just asks us to look again at this world, so different from, in a way, the world that we have been sharing with each other, the technological world, to look again at the elemental world.

Antony Gormley: Sculpted...

 but you cannot help but admire the power literacy of the players involved, their skill. You cannot help but reckon with and recognize the command they have of the elemental questions of civic power —

Eric Liu: Why ordinary...

 everyday the ebb and flow of water and the resulting Transfiguration of human behavior offers an elemental portrait of our collective myopia persistence and for better or worse adaptation thank you

The stories of water PIPE...

 helping create a powerful electrical current in lithium batteries. But because of lithium's reactivity, it does not naturally occur in its pure elemental metal form.

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