“Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.” MenImportantUniverseSidesTalentMaterialsConceptsStructureSolar SystemDogmaticOrigin Of Man Author:George Gaylord Simpson
“I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.” ThinkingMadeImportantWholeNamesConceptsIndependentImportant ThingsBoringStayingCategoriesPunk Author:Jello Biafra
“In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.” ImportantIdeasOpportunityCostConceptsEconomicsOpportunity Cost Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.” PeopleIfsLooksImportantHappensRunningTodayJobsLawBehaviorConceptsAreasMachinesCriminalsSoftwareSci FiLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Jose Padilha
“Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.” WorldImportantWatchesSeaConceptsDeterminationOrganizationOriginalsAimPopulationResistanceCorporationsDistractionAttributesConservationMarineColonyCaribbeanTurtlesSea Turtle Author:Archie Carr
“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.” FirstsKindHas BeensImportantIdeasTurnsBeliefInterestConceptsGenuineInventionInsanityRealmsAssumptionReverseNew IdeasPriesthoodVested InterestsOld Ideas Author:Arthur Miller
“Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.” ImportantLastsTeachConceptsFormation Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.” YearsFirstsWellsMadeImportantProblemKnownLordStepsElementsLateSolutionsConceptsYears AgoMethodDefinitionsNuclearChemicalsWell KnownNineteenNuclear Bomb Book:Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938 Source: Collected Papers: Italy 1921-1938
“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.” ImportantHumanityCultureDevelopmentInternetExerciseSpeechConceptsBuiltPressesInventionDedicatedFree SpeechPrintingPrinting PressQuintessentialGutenberg Author:L. Neil Smith
“Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.” ImportantLosesPoorModernConceptsEssenceSimplicityExtremesTechniqueCraftsmanship Author:George L. Carlson
“The most important things in life can't be seen with the eyes. Ideas can't be seen. Love can't be seen. Honor can't be seen. This isn't a new concept. Judaism and Christianity and Islam and Buddhism and Taoism have all taught for thousands of years that the highest forms of reality are invisible. God is invisible, and he created the universe. Our souls are invisible, and they give life to our bodies. Angels are invisible, and they're the most powerful of God's creatures.” GivingYearsImportantIdeasSoulBodyRealityEyeFormUniversePowerfulChristianityTaughtBuddhismHonorCreaturesHighestConceptsAngelImportant ThingsIslamInvisibleTaoismMost PowerfulThings In LifeJudaismMost Important Things In LifeChristianity And Islam Book:Angels All Around Us: A Sightseeing Guide to the Invisible World Source: Angels All Around Us: A Sightseeing Guide to the Invisible World