Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of…

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

— Roman Jakobson

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

— Roman Jakobson

The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to…

— David Kay

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

— Bernard Crick

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

— David Attenborough

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

— Northrop Frye

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me…

— Philip Pullman

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

— Claude Shannon

“So this is a fundamental problem, being out of a loop that I don't even believe in.”

— James P. Othmer

In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people…

— Jesse L. Greenstein

“The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.”

— Stephen R. Covey

The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.

— Valerie Plame

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The virtually unanimous support of bilingualism among Hispanic activists, “leaders” and “spokesmen”—in contrast to Hispanic parents—is understandable only in terms of the self-interest of…

— Thomas Sowell