Basic Subjects

Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or subjects:

“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“Such subjects are the very strength of kings, and are thus above the law.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)