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  • Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.

    Science   Doe   Swamps  
    "The Logic of Scientific Discovery".
  • "Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

    James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.8, Open Road Media
  • The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I connected to that in some way.

    Country   Able   Way  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

  • Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
  • That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

  • Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.

    Bedrock  
  • It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

  • Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

    Joan M. Drury (2000). “Those Jordan Girls”, Spinsters Ink Books
  • The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.

    Mean   Doubt   Bedrock  
    Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.251, University of Toronto Press
  • We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.

    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

    Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, believermag.com. November 1, 2004.
  • Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?

    Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.64, Harvard University Press
  • Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

    Dirty   Water   Tone  
  • Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: an unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.

  • Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

  • Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.

    Source: www.chicagonow.com
  • If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

    "Classic interview: Miranda Richardson". Interview with James Saynor, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.
  • Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

  • If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons
  • We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous communities and nations.

  • There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

  • Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

    D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Sons and Lovers”, p.367, BookRix
  • It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

    Talking   Law   Doe  
    "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", p. 19), 2006.
  • The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

    Strong   Jobs   School  
  • The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.

    David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.643, Simon and Schuster
  • By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

  • The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.

    Country   Moon   Snacks  
  • No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly planted in bedrock three solid anchor points that we can all cling to. For the heart scarred with futility, that Friday holds purpose. For the life blackened with failure, that Friday holds forgiveness. And for the soul looking into the tunnel of death, that Friday holds deliverance.

    Friday   Pain   Heart  
  • The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

    Source: www.avclub.com
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