Basic Idea Quotes

29 quotes by 27 authors

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that… — B R Ambedkar
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with… — Albert Einstein
Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This… — Vannevar Bush
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments… — Charlie Munger
Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which… — Keith O'Brien
The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique. — Bill Condon
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its… — Dennis Etchison
The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more likely that transformation… — Ken Wilber
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can… — Ann Coulter
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are… — Noam Chomsky
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they… — Frank Zappa
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from… — Jeffrey Sachs
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate… — Max Bill
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which… — A. J. Jacobs
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in… — Walt Disney
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place… — Emily Oster
An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to… — Ken Wilber
How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on… — Marvin Minsky

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