Quotes About Foundations

By contrast, a twentieth-century fluid dynamicist could hardly expect to advance knowledge in his field without first adopting a body of terminology and mathematical technique. In return, unconsciously, he would give up much freedom to question the foundations of his science.

I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

Earning high returns isn't just a matter of bragging rights - endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations.

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

If I had to give my advice to someone else starting the business, my standard answer is so, so true, and that's to learn the fundamental basics of this business. If you don't have a fundamental base to build upon, your house will fall, and you will never truly achieve the status you desire.

I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.

In medicine, you learn about ethics from day one. In mathematics, it's a bolt-on at best. It has to be there from day one and at the forefront of your mind in every step you take.

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.

In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing at all. They were an infinite zero.

When someone answers a question about the foundations of a subject, it can change everything we know.

All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You've got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn't going to work.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

Open Society Foundations is essentially another name for George Soros, who is a committed leftist, one-world-government ideologue.

To get exponential returns, forget learning the latest thing. Instead, focus on what lasts.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

I was an estructuralist at the age of seven, which is about the right age for it.

The book which most profoundly influenced that mind, which sent Wilhelm II into ecstasies and provided the Nazis with their racial aberrations, was Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts) a work of some twelve hundred pages which Chamberlain, again possessed of one of his "demons," wrote in nineteen months between April 1, 1897, and October 31, 1898, in Vienna, and which was published in 1899.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.