central idea

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I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. Edward Everett

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. G. K. Chesterton

My reflection when I first made myself master of the central idea of the Origin was, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Thomas Henry Huxley

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds? John Philip Sousa

The central idea of the philosophy of behaviorism, that behavior and the mind have an entirely materialist basis subject to experimental analysis, is fundamentally sound. E. O. Wilson

The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string. Brian Greene

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