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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
aldo leopold— p. viii-ix (Foreword)
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
abraham maslow— p. 23 (Motivation and Personality (1954))
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
aldo leopold— Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949.
Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
jim fowler— American professional zoologist and host
Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
Karl Barth— 1948 Kirchliche Dogmatik vol.3, pt.2 (translated by H Knight as Church Dogmatics,1960).
The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease...
carl orff— Marin Alsop in "Love, Lust and Drinking Stir Carmina" for Weekend Edition Saturday (11 November 2006)
In our time of ever-increasing specialization, there is a tendency to concern ourselves with relatively narrow scientific problems. The broad foundations of our present-day scientific knowledge and its historical development tend to be forgotten too often. This is an unfortunate trend, not only because our horizon becomes rather limited and our perspective somewhat distorted, but also because there are many valuable lessons to be learned in looking back over the years during which the basic concepts and the fundamental laws of a particular scientific discipline were first formulated.
— in Einstein's Researches on the Nature of Light, Emil Wolf (2001). Selected works of Emil Wolf: with commentary. World Scientific. p. 536. ISBN 9810242042.
"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." "There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual."
john williams— John Williams, quoted from the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial CD liner notes
There is no reason to deny the Macedonians' own traditions about their early kings and the migration of the Macedones[..] The basic story as provided by Herodotus and Thucydides, minus the interpolation of the Temenid connections, undoubtedly reflects the Macedonians' own traditions about their early history.
eugene n. borza— p. 84 (In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon (1990))
While in the ?rst quarter of this century physicists and cosmologists were forced to revise the basic notions that govern the natural sciences, in the last quarter of this century biologists will force a revision of the basic notions that govern science itself. After that “?rst revolution” it was clear that the classical concept of an “ultimate science”, that is an objective description of the world in which there are no subjects (a “subjectless universe”), contains contradictions.
heinz von foerster— p.258 (Notes on an epistemology for living things, 1981)
And, in this case, science could learn an important lesson from the literati who love contingency for the same basic reason that scientists tend to regard the theme with suspicion. Because, in contingency lies the power of each person, to make a difference in an unconstrained world bristling with possibilities, and nudgeable by the smallest of unpredictable inputs into markedly different channels spelling either vast improvement or potential disaster.
stephen jay gould— p. 1341 (The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002))
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
benjamin graham— Chapter V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56
We do not demand for our own people any more than the basic human rights which we would extend to every nation, people and tribe on this planet: the right to preserve their own territory, traditions and ethnic identity. The right to preserve, in other words, the things which, by marking their differences from the mass of humanity, make them human and turn their society from an ant heap into a community.
nicholas john griffin— Nick Griffin, The BNP: Anti-asylum protest, racist sect or power-winning movement?
The first statement of the two principals reads as follows. First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both(a)reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all.
john rawls— Chapter II, Section 11, pg. 60
A solid working knowledge of productivity software and other IT tools has become a basic foundation for success in virtually any career. Beyond that, however, I don't think you can overemphasise the importance of having a good background in maths and science .
— Bill Gates, Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed. BBC News (14 December 2007).
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
Josh Fox— From article, Josh Fox's view: Ban fracking now, June 6, 2011
2.6.<odd>: still a stable kernel, but accept bigger changes leading up to it (timeframe: a month or two). 2.<odd>.x: aim for big changes that may destabilize the kernel for several releases (timeframe: a year or two) <odd>.x.x: Linus went crazy, broke absolutely everything , and rewrote the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version of Visual basic. (timeframe: "we expect that he will be released from the mental institution in a decade or two").
linus torvalds— Torvalds, Linus (2005-03-02). Message to Linux kernel mailing list. Retrieved on 2006-12-11.
In giving you these tapes, blemishes and all, I am placing my trust in the basic fairness of the American people.
— 1974 National address, 30 May, on relinquishing the Watergate tapes after the House Judiciary Committee warned him that refusal 'might constitute a ground for impeachment'.
The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.
brennan, william j., jr.— Dissenting, McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987)
But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.
mikhail kalinin— August 1945. Quoted in "The Soviet Union Since World War II" - Page 4 - by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely - History - 1949
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
allen newell— 1975 Turing Award Citation [3] awarded jointly to Allen Newell and Herbert Simon.
Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn’t been able to solve any of our basic problems, for example the environmental pollution or the problems with HIV and AIDS. This is the worst disease of our time, and scientists are lost. I believe that many people are disappointed with science when the answers we need are not delivered.
björn ulvaeus— Björn Ulvaeus Speaks on Humanism, 14 July 2006
So far Unitarian realism claiming to possess positive knowledge about Ultimate Reality has succeeded only by excluding large areas of phenomena or by declaring, without proof, that they could be reduced to basic theory, which, in this connection, means elementary particle physics.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 215 (Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous]))
Cadet corps instill discipline in its members, where you are taught basic skills such as survival in the wilderness, unarmed combat, tracking and learning how to strategise.
ratu joni madraiwiwi— Message to cadets at Xavier College in Ba, Fiji, 27 July 2005
Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?'"
robert anton wilson— The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 2
The Hindu theory of reincarnation is based upon four basic principles: permanence of the atman , existence of maya (the original ignorance ), liberation ( moksha ) of the atman from samsara and the law of Karma .
— Bansi Pandit, in p.117 (The Hindu Mind: Fundamentals of Hindu Religion and Philosophy for All Ages)
Let us now (at last) state the basic theorem: If God exists, then God is identical to the Universe. That is, the theorem is a statement of conditional pandeism. If God exists at all, God must be absolutely everything that exists.
— Robert G. Brown, Ph.D., "The Pandeist Theorem," A Theorem Concerning God, 2009.
Most of us make one of two basic assumptions: we view the universe as a result of random events and life on this planet a matter of chance; or we assume an Intelligence beyond the universe who gives the universe order, and life meaning.
— Armand Nicholi, The Question of God (2002) Prologue, p. 7
