“In fact, the science of thermodynamics began with an analysis, by the great engineer Sadi Carnot, of the problem of how to build the best and most efficient engine, and this constitutes one of the few famous cases in which engineering has contributed to fundamental physical theory. Another example that comes to mind is the more recent analysis of information theory by Claude Shannon. These two analyses, incidentally, turn out to be closely related.” MindTwoFactsProblemTurnsCasesInformationExampleTheoryFundamentalsAnalysisRelatedEnginesEfficientEngineeringEngineersThermodynamicsShannon Author:Richard P. Feynman
“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.” HumansMeanFactsIndividualSocialReligiousAnimalMoralCasesPsychologyPressureFundamentalsInstinctEtcInternalsOrganismsHeredity Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning.” ThinkingWayActionThreeCasesStudyFundamentalsBelieverDiscussionProfessorsLecturingCase Studies Author:Robert J. Dolan
“They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.” FactsCertainCasesJudgmentFundamentalsArguingAbortionDisrespectSensational Author:Barack Obama
“... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.” IfsKnowsAnswersPrinciplesCasesProduceTestsFundamentalsTestingFundamental Principles Author:Brian Kernighan
“Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.” ShouldRealityAmericaLostCasesDemocracyMiddleConcernFundamentalsSpreadEastContactSecureMarchMiddle EastRetreatRealistDemocracy In The Middle East Author:George W. Bush
“The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.” RealSidesCasesEconomicEvidenceFundamentalsSocialismImmoralityInefficiency Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.” WayFirstsHumansDoeThreeLevelsMoralPrinciplesCasesVirtueConditionsParticularDutyTheoryJudgmentFundamentalsDoctrineHuman LifeInterpretationEthicalApplicationMetaphysicsImperativesFundamental PrinciplesGroundworkSpecificationsCategorical Imperative Author:Allen W. Wood
“We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out. That's just a way of talking that emphasizes the soul is so fundamental that we can, in some cases, treat it as the whole person because it actually is the thing that integrates all of these aspects of the self and makes them work together. Now, I don't think we can find a passage in the Bible that says that. We have to read and study how it addresses the soul, and we then see that it is the deepest, most vital part of the human self.” ThinkingWayHumansPersonsSoulSelfWholeFeelingsBodyTogetherEmotionTalkingCasesStudyAspectTreatsFundamentalsAddressesWorking TogetherPassagesIntegratingWhole PersonWay Of Talking Author:Dallas Willard
“There's the unique case of Ronald Reagan, who cited [founders] some 850 times, and in a way that was absolutely fundamental to understanding Reagan's vision for America.” WayAmericaUnderstandingVisionCasesUniqueFundamentalsFounders Author:Paul Kengor
“Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay. More debt to carry. More rules to follow. More judges who just make it up as they go along. We Republicans, we are committed to a federal government that acts again as a servant accountable to the people, following the constitution, and venturing not one inch beyond the consent of the governed. We, we in this party, offer a better way for our country based on fundamentals that go back to the founding generation.” PeopleWayCountryGovernmentPartyPayCasesOur LivesGenerationsJudgingGoes OnRepublicanOffersTaxesAspectConstitutionFundamentalsCommittedFollowingDebtOur CountryServantInchesConsentFederal GovernmentFoundingBetter WaysConsent Of The Governed Author:Paul Ryan
“A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.” IfsYearsFirstsKindAmericaWinningMoralCasesAuthorityFundamentalsObligationReformAgendasNovemberMoral ObligationMoral Authority Author:Paul Ryan
“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.” WantTodayAbleCertainTurnsCasesAmountMadnessFundamentalsDareExtremesYesterdayClarityFormulasMadmenNonconformity Author:Thomas Sankara
“The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.” BelieveMayWholeSpaceCasesAirFutureDifficultyPrejudiceFundamentalsNotionFlightAppealsShootingAccomplishedSpiteAviationPredictionsImpossibilityProceduresRocketsMisleadAnalogies Author:Richard van der Riet Woolley