Underlying Principles Quotes

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

I love physics because it's neat and it's orderly in its own peculiar way.

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

We cannot understand the constitution of any country whatsoever by reading the text alone. To gain a thorough understanding of such constitution we have to know how the text came into existence, the conditions that prevailed at the time. In this way we can grasp the fundamental ideas and the basic reasoning underlying the constitution.

You can never really get away from the fundamentals of anything that you're doing.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.

Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.