Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially…

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

— Joseph Goebbels

My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles… That I have published so little is due to this same…

— Albert Einstein

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

— Evelyn Underhill

Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to…

— Kurt Lewin

“When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it.”

— Jacques Barzun

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of…

— William Whewell

What's going on is that our most fundamental ideas about life are not serving us. They never have. But now, with our advances in…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

— Marie Curie

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting…

— Melanie Phillips

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast…

— David Eagleman

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...

— Paul Feyerabend

“Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made…

— Santosh Kalwar

“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you…

— Israelmore Ayivor