T. S. Eliot

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

American Poet

Stephen Covey

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

American Educator

Gordon Moore

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

American Businessman

Michael Jordan

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

American Basketball Player

Albert Camus

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

French Philosopher

Arlen Specter

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

American Politician

Frans Timmermans

Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.

Dutch Politician

Bozoma Saint John

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

American Businesswoman

Tom Rath

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

American Author

Brad Henry

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

Used when the subject is not just important, but a foundational element.

Depth of Importance

Indicates something goes beyond the surface, affecting deeper aspects.

Not Surface Level

Refers to the essential structure or most basic level of a system.

System's Backbone

Refers to the foundational aspects before looking at more complex elements.

Before the Details

Highlights the primary concerns at the heart of a matter.

Root Concerns

Indicates an action addressing the main issues that are often accepted as normal.

Challenge Status Quo

In music, refers to the most basic pitch of a sound upon which others are built.

Musical Foundation

The starting point for harmonics and understanding musical structures.

Harmony Base

Relates to the most basic elements or principles in the scientific realm.

Scientific Building Blocks

Refers to the underlying principles governing natural phenomena.

Nature's Basics

 depended solely on the element's quantity, and was not affected by physical or chemical changes. This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element. The idea was radical and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects.

The genius of Marie...

 This period of history was a golden age of Islamic culture, during which many achievements of previous civilizations were preserved and further developed, resulting in fundamental advancements in scientific study and mathematics. Accompanying this was an increasingly sophisticated use of abstraction

The complex geometry of...

 Ha ha. Very amusing. Albert, the uncertainty principle works. It functions, and it allows us to make use of the quantum world. The goal of scientific pursuit should not be merely to make use of the world around us. It should be to understand it fundamentally, no matter what use it might have.

The Uncertainty...

 Could it be that there are fundamental limits to what we can know about something we can't experience? And would this mean there are certain aspects of the universe that lie permanently beyond our comprehension? Or will science and philosophy allow us to overcome our mind's limitations?

Mary's Room: A...

 developed in Plato's other dialogues, which holds that like the shadows on the wall, things in the physical world are flawed reflections of ideal forms, such as roundness, or beauty. In this way, the cave leads to many fundamental questions, including the origin of knowledge,

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 A real-life sonic screwdriver could be closer than you think. A future of sonic surgeries and screwdrivers sounds great. But that technology won't levitate me anytime soon. I think it's time to tackle the fundamental force that's keeping me grounded, gravity.

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 spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ineffective green policies instead what we do need to do is to spend and encourage them to dramatically ramp up investment in green energy innovation fundamentally if we can innovate the

Economics of climate...

 and stressed that we all share the same fundamental humanity. Nor does Stoicism encourage passivity. The idea is that only people who have cultivated virtue and self-control in themselves can bring positive change in others.

The philosophy of...

 And so what happens? They don't talk about it. But the more fundamental reason that law enforcement for the poor in the developing world is so neglected, is because the people inside the developing world, with money,

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 it could sustain life indefinitely. There's just one problem. They don't work. Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics,

Fundamental

Depth of Importance

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