Definition of Fundamental

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Fundamental

Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.

A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

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Fundamental Quotations

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mohandas Gandhi

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitzer

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Fundamental Translations

fundamental in Dutch is fundamenteel
fundamental in French is en principe, foncier
fundamental in German is grundlegend
fundamental in Hungarian is alaphang, alap-, sarkalatos
fundamental in Italian is in linea di massima
fundamental in Norwegian is fundamental
fundamental in Spanish is fundamental

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