In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either…

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

— Bertrand Russell

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

— Fabiola Gianotti

“In the earliest times, which were so susceptible to vague speculation and the inevitable ordering of the universe, there can have existed no division…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“In the very earliest times, when both people and animals lived on earth, a person could become an animal if he wanted to, and…

— Virginia Morell

“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one…

— W.G. Sebald

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“During an abduction, you want to place a 911 call at the earliest opportunity and keep the phone line open for the duration of…

— Steven Magee

The earliest music I remember hearing is Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' That was when my momma and my daddy were together, before they…

— E-40

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

— Joe Lhota

Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.

— Anonymous

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost.…

— Natasha Trethewey

“The earliest form of natural selection was simply a selection of stable forms and a rejection of unstable ones. There is no mystery about…

— Richard Dawkins

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist…

— Elliott Abrams

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy…

— Shari Sebbens

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now…

— John O'Keefe