Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

Everything emanates from the basics, from your base. If you don't have a strong base, I'm sorry, but you are always going to be coming back to it, trying to reattain.

Maths is like a ladder - if you miss the first few rungs, you can't jump up, so start with the basics.

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

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

Theories then are dangerous things.

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

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

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

Observations always involve theory.

Progress is a set of assumptions.

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.