1. fundamental - Noun
2. fundamental - Adjective
3. fundamental - Adjective Satellite
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. Stephen Hawking
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. Erich Fromm
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. Stephen Harper